Event: Helina Metaferia – SMFA x MFA Traveling Fellows Exhibition – Workshops

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Artist Workshop #1 with Helina Metaferia 

“By Way of Revolution”

Tues March 16

6:30-8pm EST

Workshop description:

This virtual performance art workshop, led by artist Helina Metaferia, is especially designed for women-identifying BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) who are students, staff, and faculty at Tufts University and Northeastern University. The workshop investigates how histories of protest inform our present day moment, and the powerful yet often overlooked role that BIPOC women (both cis and trans) play in them. The workshop will rely on performative gestures of resilience to explore how institutionalized and systemic trauma gets stored in the body, and provide creative and tangible tools for self-care and communal care to help sustain ourselves. The artist will lead participants through a series of writing, mindfulness, and somatic and performance exercises based on histories of social change movements. 

This workshop is held in conjunction with Helina Metaferia’s solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Fall 2021. Participants of this workshop have the option to volunteer to be photographed on a separate date in person at the Museum of Fine Arts for a series of collages that Metaferia will create, combining archives of historical liberation movements with the images of workshop participants. All workshop participants will be asked to sign an image release waiver before being granted access to the workshop. Participants are asked to be on desktops or laptops as opposed to their phones, keep their video cameras on during the entire session, and only the parts of the collective performance will be recorded. 

Artist’s Bio:

Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, video, installation, collage, and social practice. Metaferia received her MFA from Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI; Northeastern University’s Gallery 360, Boston, MA; New York University’s The Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; Modern Art Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, among many others. Metaferia’s work has been supported by residencies including MacDowell, Yaddo, Bemis, and Triangle Arts Association. She is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow / Assistant Professor at Brown University, and lives and works in New York City.

www.helinametaferia.com

Artist Workshop #2 with Helina Metaferia 

“Virtual Gardens”

Friday March 19

2:30-4pm EST

Workshop description:

This virtual performance workshop, led by artist Helina Metaferia, is especially designed for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) of all genders who are students, staff, and faculty at Tufts University and Northeastern University. The workshop rethinks the images and narratives that we consume daily during our screen-dependant era. It interrogates our unique time of both social justice and social distance. How can we pivot the dynamic of online meeting spaces to create vulnerability without proximity, and vitality as opposed to fatigue? The culmination of this workshop will be an experimental artwork featuring participants. All participants will be asked to sign an image release waiver before being granted access to the workshop. Participants are asked to be on their desktop or laptops as opposed to their phones, keep their video cameras on during the entire session, and only parts of the collective performance will be recorded. 

Opp: Real Artways Real Art Awards. Deadline 3/31/20 Midnight

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I’m excited to let you know that Real Art Ways is now accepting submissionsfor the 2021 Real Art Awards! Emerging artists in living in New Jersey, New England, or New York are invited to submit their work for consideration free of charge. Six selected artists will receive a $2,500 prize, solo exhibition, catalogue essay, and more. This year’s jury panel includes: artist and writer Kameelah Janan Rasheed; artist and Director of the School of Art at George Mason University Hasan Elahi; and Real Art Ways Executive Director Will K. Wilkins.
Our definition of “emerging” is inherently flexible, so recently graduated students are encouraged to submit their work for consideration. Students graduating this Spring semester are also eligible to apply. 
For full rules, submission guidelines, and FAQ, click here.