Kamoinge Workshop artist
James M. Mannas Jr. screens his film “King is Dead” (1968), an account of the reactions of his New York community to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The screening is followed by a conversation with the filmmaker
RaMell Ross, moderated by Whitney assistant curator
Carrie Springer.
RaMell Ross is a visual artist, filmmaker, and writer based in Rhode Island and Alabama. His feature documentary
Hale County This
Morning, This Evening won a Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar at the 91st Academy Awards.
Presented in collaboration with the Whitney Museum of American Art, this series of programs features conversations with artists from the Kamoinge Workshop included in the exhibition