Tsedaye Makonnen Performs in Taking the White Gloves Off: A Performance Art Series in Honor of Lorraine O'Grady ‘55
When:
Wednesday, Mar 06, 2024 12:30p -
1:30p
Wednesday, Mar 06, 2024 12:30p -
1:30p
Where:
Global Flora Conservatory
106 Central St.
Wellesley, MA 02481
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art
Event website:
https://www.wellesley.edu/davismuseum/events/node/206171
Date and time: Wednesday, 3/6 at 12:30-1:30 pm
Location: Global Flora
Taking the White Gloves Off: A Performance Art Series in Honor of Lorraine O'Grady ‘55 features six multidisciplinary artists— Dominique Duroseau, M. Lamar, Tsedaye Makonnen, Nyugen E. Smith, Ayana Evans, and Eleanor Kipping —to accompany the exhibition Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And. As one of Wellesley College’s most esteemed alumnae in the arts, the Class of 1955 artist will be celebrated with a spectacular opening and symposium at the Davis Museum, a five-day artist residency at the Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities, and campus-wide events that will reach across all disciplines throughout the semester. The invited artists, who first convened as the performance art cohort at the Lunder Institute for American Art’s 2023 Summer Think Tank at Colby College Museum of Art, will pay tribute to O’Grady’s inspiration and legacy, with performances scheduled for February, March, and May on Wellesley’s campus.
Tsedaye Makonnen is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, researcher, and cultural producer. Her practice is driven by Black feminist theory, firsthand site-specific research, and ethical social practice techniques, and manifests in solo and collaborative site-sensitive performances, objects, installations, and films. Her studio primarily focuses on intersectional feminism, reproductive health, and migration. Tsedaye’s personal history is as a mother, the daughter of Ethiopian refugees, a doula, and a sanctuary builder.
In 2019 Tsedaye was a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow and staged two interventions at the Venice Biennale titled When Drowning is the Best Option feat. Astral Sea I. In 2021, her light sculptures were acquired by the Smithsonian for their permanent collection and she published a book entitled Black Women as/and the Living Archive. Tsedaye is the recipient of a permanent large-scale public art commission for the city of Providence, RI. In Fall 2022, she performed at the Venice Biennale for Simone Leigh’s Loophole of Retreat and was the Clark Art Institute’s Futures Fellow. In 2023-24, Tsedaye is exhibiting at The Metropolitan Museum, Bard Graduate Center, UT Austin, and The Walters Art Museum, where she is guest curator of contemporary works. She is currently represented by Addis Fine Art, and lives between Washington, D.C. and London with her partner and children.
Photo Credit: Lorraine O'Grady (American, born 1934). Art Is . . . (Girl Pointing) , 1983/2009. Chromogenic photograph in 40 parts, 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm). Edition of 8 plus 1 artist’s proof. © Lorraine O’Grady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
