An Evening with the Artists
Tuesday, October 29th
6:30 - 830 pm
Hamiltonian: 1353 U Street, NW
Open to all. Light refreshments provided.
Come spend time with the first year Hamiltonian Fellows, currently on view as part of new.now., as the second year fellows creatively interview then about all things art practice, new.now., and more! Each 2nd year fellow will have 20 minutes to interview the first year they will be showing with during the upcoming exhibition season. What will this look like exactly? Your guess is as good as ours but we can assure you it will be a non-stop thrill ride of an evening.*
Yacine Fall will be interviewed by Sera Boeno. Yacine Tilala Fall is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist. She received a BFA from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. Using performance, sculpture, painting and natural materials, her work investigates identity, politics, and history through the lens of the body. Her work and practice speaks to the human body and its entangled relationship with the natural environment. A Senegalese heritage and an American upbringing informs her repetitive and labor intensive art practice.
Tommy Bobo will be interviewed by Luke Ikard. Tommy was born in the south, fled to the prairie, and settled in the capital. He makes art primarily with lights and computers, but also enjoys watercolors, writing, and video. His work is sometimes about people and history; the ineptitude of technology; or the color of the sky on his walk to work. Tommy received a BFA in Expanded Media Art from the University of Kansas in 2006 and his MFA in Studio Art from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014. He has taught art and design at American University and the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Amber Eve Anderson will be interviewed by Brian Michael Dunn. Amber is a multidisciplinary artist and writer whose work is rooted in ideas of home and displacement, often combining aspects of the digital and the real. She received a BFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2005 and an MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art multidisciplinary program at MICA in 2016. She currently lives in Baltimore where she serves on the Advisory Board of the Institute of Contemporary Art in and is a regularly contributing writer at BmoreArt.
Akea Brionne Brown will be interviewed by Curtis Miller. Akea is a lens-based artist whose work investigates the implications of historical racial and social structures in relation to contemporary black life in America. With a particular focus on the ways in which history influences the contemporary cultural milieu of the American black middle class, she explores current political and social themes, as they relate to historical forms of oppression, discrimination, and segregation in American history.
Akea received her BFA (2018) from the Maryland Institute College of Art, in the dual degree program of Photography and Humanities. She is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana and is currently based in Baltimore, Maryland.
Madeline A. Stratton will be interviewed by Kaitlin Jensco. Madeline was born in 1987 in Memphis, TN. She is a multidisciplinary artist and educator living and working in Washington, DC. In 2018, she completed her Multidisciplinary MFA in the Mount Royal School of Art at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where she received a Merit Scholarship. She holds an MA in History of Art and the Art Market: Modern and Contemporary from Christie’s Education in New York, NY and a BA in Studio Art and History of Art from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.