In-person at Michael C Carlos Museum at Emory University
Members, please check your November Members Newsletter for a link to the event or email felicia@museumofdesign.org.
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About This Event
Who doesn’t love a good tour? We think you’ll love this one.
MODA is teaming up with Emory University to bring our members a special tour of art + design + archives as part of our MODA Sites: Members Meetup + One programming.
Join us for a tour of exhibitions of art + design + archives at Emory University.
Members can bring their plus one, and enjoy intimate insights on curator-guided tours on November 15 from 10:30-12:30 pm. Our stops will include:
For this exclusive three-part tour schedule, we will begin by ruminating on the use of objects and their transformations from destruction in Come Ruin or Rapture by artist La Vaughn Belle with curator, Clint Fluker, PhD at the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
Rose Library, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Next, we will be privy to a private presentation of selected objects from the C.T. and Octavia Vivian papers collection and ephemera from The Civil Rights Era in the United States at the Rose Library, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library with Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist.
breathe, an Exhibition by Sheila Pree Bright
Our tour will conclude by focusing our gaze on the contemporary photographic works in ‘breathe.’ by Atlanta-based photographer Sheila Pree Bright at the Schatten Gallery, Robert W. Woodruff Library with curator Andi McKenzie, PhD.
We hope to offer our members and their guests a glimpse into the relationships between art and design, curating and exhibition design, as well as history and site-specificity. By building bridges between Atlanta sites we hope to uncover a deeper understanding of design and its many contexts.
Members will have a chance to speak directly with the curators and learn more about how curatorial design, exhibition planning, and institutional relationships help bring our cultural moments into the forefront. We thank Emory University for this special opportunity to collaborate while observing the past, understanding the present, and envisioning a bright future together.
Space is limited, so be sure to register you and your plus one today!
Please check your November Members e-newsletter for a registration link
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About the Artists + Exhibitions + Archives
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Through exploring the material culture of coloniality, La Vaughn Belle creates narratives from fragments and silences. Working in a variety of disciplines, her practice includes painting, installation, photography, writing, video, and public interventions. She has exhibited her work in the Caribbean, the USA, and Europe in institutions such as the Museo del Barrio (New York), Casa de las Americas (Cuba), the Museum of the African Diaspora (California), and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Denmark) with large solo exhibitions at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (South Carolina) and the National Nordic Museum (Washington). She is the co-creator of I Am Queen Mary, the artist-led groundbreaking monument that confronted the Danish colonial amnesia while commemorating the legacies of resistance of the African people who were brought to the former Danish West Indies. The project was featured in over 100 media outlets around the world, including the New York Times, Politiken, VICE, the BBC, and Le Monde. Her work has also been written about in Hyperallergic, Artforum, Small Axe, and numerous journals and books. Her studio is based in the Virgin Islands.
Come Ruin or Rapture, opening in the Carlos Museum’s John Howett Works on Paper Gallery on September 19, includes work from two of Belle’s series, Storm (in the time of spatial and temporal collapse) and Storm (how to imagine the tropicalia as monumental) where she uses materials from her studio that were exposed to Hurricane Maria in 2017. These repurposed materials take on new forms and express the resilience of people of African descent in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the face of both natural disasters and colonial powers.
Curated by: Clint Fluker, PhD. Fluker serves as the Senior Director of Culture, Community, and Partner Engagement for Emory University Libraries and the Michael C. Carlos Museum.
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In 2021 Civil rights leader the Rev. C.T. Vivian, who worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), placed a portion of his and his late wife's papers with the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) at Emory University. The collection consists of ephemera of C.T. and Octavia Vivian including correspondence, printed material, photographs, subject files, and audiovisual material. The collection documents pivotal figures and moments in US History including civil rights figures such as Ralph David Abernathy, Septima Clark, Jesse Jackson, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, Joseph and Evelyn Lowery, Rosa Parks, Hosea and Juanita Williams, and Andrew Young. Learn more about the C.T. and Octavia Vivian papers. Other rare materials from Rose Library's collections related to the Civil Rights Era will be selected and shared, including protest posters, letters, and photographs from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference papers and Black Panther Party papers.
Led by: Gaby Hale, Outreach Archivist, Rose Gallery, Emory University
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“As a Photographic Artist, I am interested in the life of those individuals and communities that are often unseen in the world. My objective is to capture images that allow us to experience those who are unheard as they contemplate or voice their reaction to ideas and issues that are shaping their world. In this process, what I shoot creates contemporary stories about social, political and historical context not often seen in the visual communication of traditional media and fine art platforms. My work captures and presents aspects of our culture, and sometimes counterculture, that challenges the typical narratives of Western thought and power structures.” - Sheila Pree Bright
Bright received her MFA degree from Georgia State University and in 2023 was the focus of a solo exhibition, “The Rebirth of Us,” at Atlanta’s Jackson Fine Art Gallery. Her work has also been included in exhibitions at the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, and the High Museum of Art.
Experience ‘breathe.’ and explore an exhibition of photographs.The show focuses on Georgia landscapes where important moments in civil rights history transpired and reimagines them as places of meditation and relaxation. It is a destination for anyone interested in the people and places that have shaped the social, political, and historical contexts of our modern world.
Curated by: Andi McKenzie, PhD. McKenzie serves as the Curator of Works on Paper at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University.
The Details
Meeting Place: Instructions and meeting place will be emailed following registration.
Arrival: Please arrive early enough to find parking, and traverse from the Public Parking Deck to the correct meeting point. A MODA sign, two MODA staff members, and two Emory Staff members will be there to greet you.
Questions: For questions or contact on the day, please contact Felicia E. Gail, Public Programming & Membership Manager at felicia@museumofdesign.org
Accessibility: This walk covers paved terrain, some stairs, and interiors of buildings, and is wheelchair accessible in most cases.
What to wear and bring: Wear comfortable walking shoes. Consider bringing a bottle of water to carry for moments where liquids are permitted.
Cancellation Policy: MODA reserves the right to cancel a program if the minimum enrollment requirements are not met. You will be notified in a timely fashion if a program is cancelled.
If you need to cancel your plans for any reason, we kindly request that you notify us 48 hours prior to the event start.