Friends Lecture: Deborah Roberts
Spend an evening with the Friends and Deborah Roberts, a mixed-media artist celebrated for her artworks that explore topics of Black childhood. Roberts is joined in conversation by MIA’s Associate Curator of Global Contemporary Art Leslie Ureña. This lecture provides a unique chance to hear Roberts share her artistic journey, techniques, and the motivations behind her powerful work.
Capacity is limited; reserve your spot here.
Copies of Deborah Roberts: Twenty Years of Art/Work will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
Deborah Roberts: Twenty Years of Art/Work
For all our sakes, I hope Deborah Roberts continues to stake a claim, through her work, for a more expansive view of Black children.
– Dawoud Bey
Deborah Roberts: 20 Years of Art/Work provides the definitive look at the artist’s practice over the past two decades. With newly commissioned texts and a thorough dive into Roberts’ archive, this monograph offers a comprehensive view of one of today’s most significant artists and social observers. An extensive plate section is accompanied by a personal, heartfelt foreword from Dawoud Bey on “the tragic mischaracterization of Black children”; an insightful essay from Ekow Eshun on the social and political histories of innocence, race, and the fractured nature of the contemporary Black experience; a celebratory tribute from Carolyn Jean Martin on the musicality, humility, and generosity of Roberts’ practice; and a free-ranging conversation between Roberts and Sarah Elizabeth Lewis.
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