Erin Christovale: Black Radical Imagination
Works In Progress
English - October 07, 2020 15:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBVisual Arts Arts Performing Arts art architecture design film theater dance performance visual arts ucla los angeles Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Museums are experiencing a cultural reckoning over race, identity and historical legacy. Black arts workers have been central in calling on museums to be more inclusive of the communities they serve.
Erin Christovale, associate curator at the Hammer Museum, focuses on experimental moving images and visual art. She has helped give emerging Black artists the infrastructural support they need to advance their careers.
In this episode of Works In Progress, Christovale talks about the changing role of the museum in the Black Lives Matter era; why Afrofuturism is relevant today; and the topic of justice, which she’ll be exploring as part of the UCLA event series “10 Questions: Reckoning.”