Excited to exhibit 3 new multi-media artworks with such an incredible roster of artists!

Power Trip - Curated by John Rogers and Gemma Szusterman
Opening Event: March 1, 2025 4 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Closing Event: March 22, 2025 noon - 4 p.m.

“Power Trip” maps the variety of ways artists conceive of power. The work in this show upends traditional conceits and ranges from grand to subtle – exploring the mightiness of softness and the fragility of hard edges through investigations of symbolism, materials, and invocations. These artists create new mystical lexicons by usurping and kludging iconography. They exploit materials to reveal the alchemy of intention.

1207 Tenth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

Awarded to one graduate each year, The Ted Coons Dissertation Prize was established in 2015 to acknowledge outstanding IDSVA dissertations.

Dissertation: The Historical Presence and Vernacular Traditions of Black Women Artists Since 1980, directed by Dr. Romi Crawford.

The award was conferred at the IDSVA Commencement ceremony in New York City, on April 21, 2024.

In conversation with Deborah Roberts about the new monograph publication: Deborah Roberts: Twenty Years of Art/Work (Radius Books, Nov. 2023).
Contributors to publication: Carolyn Jean Martin, Ekow Eshun, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis.

George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center, Austin, Texas. December 2, 2023

Contributed the essay "The Art of Creating” - Available November 2023

The Black Sound Symposium is a 4-day event full of concerts, talks, workshops, screenings, and interdisciplinary dialogue rooted in Black sound and Black sonic space.
Martin and Mulenga engage will engage in presentation and a discussion of Black portraiture and the racial imagination, April 20, 2023.

Visiting Artist at the Armstrong Campus and Statesboro Campus. Visit included guest lecture “Revealing Spaces Between:Destructive Creative Acts,” presented at the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro Campus.

Moderator of a conversation between Dr. Olu Oguibe (USA) and Dr. Johan Thom (South Africa) focused on exploring the question of "Africanness" in relation to an expanded definition of sculpture. Sponsored by IDSVA, The African Centre for the Study of the United States at the University of the Witwatersrand, The African Centre for the Study of the United States at the University of Pretoria, and The Villa-Legodi Centre for Sculpture at the NIROX Sculpture Park.

Transcript available here: www.villa-legodi.com/archive

Presented current research surrounding monumentally scaled contemporary artwork created by Black women artists in relation to physical space, access, social function, and agent of change. Sponsored by The School of the Arts and the Transformation Directorate, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. October 8, 2021

In conversation with K. Wayne Yang (Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego). Departures, Deviations, Detours is a series of conversations meant to address the urgent and timely questions of historians of art.

Contributed an essay in response to the artwork of Deborah Roberts. A publication from Radius Books that is third in an ongoing series of limited edition photography projects. Published December, 2020.

Panel Co-Chair, “Reframing Aesthetics: Diaspora, Historicity, and The Myth of Truth.” February 13, 2021

Presenter, "Andrea Brustolon and Kerry James Marshall: Visualization of Blackness"

“Negro Expositions: Portrait Photography in the Nineteenth And Twenty-First Centuries”
2013

San Francisco Art Institute Commencement, May 2013

Six artists from the US and Canada have been invited to re-visit and re-interpret the famous 1963 speech, “I have a dream” through their own lenses and experiences.

The Link newspaper

“Debauchery and David Lynch: SFAI’s 2012 MFA Exhibition” KQED Arts Review, Mark Taylor