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How the esteemed Whitney curator got her start.
April 29, 2021
Curator Rujeko Hockley has always woven art history into the fabric of her life’s pursuits. She described a turning point that came during while an undergraduate at Columbia University, when she realized that art history did not have to be such a narrow course of study.
“Topics I was interested in around questions of equity, questions of race, questions of history, questions of class all of these questions could be a legitimate and valid way to think about the history of art,” she said.
After graduation, she stepped into the museum world as a curatorial assistant at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Since then, she’s taken on roles at the Brooklyn Museum, co-curated a Whitney Biennial, and now works as an assistant curator at the Whitney Museum.
Ming Smith, the first female member of the Kamoinge Workshop, into dialogue with critic and musician
Greg Tate, one of the book’s contributors. Presenting four decades of Smith’s work, the publication celebrates her enduring vision and ongoing contributions to the medium of photography. The program is introduced by
Rujeko Hockley, assistant curator
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
Working Together: Photographers of the Kamoinge Workshop currently on view at the Whitney. The talks explore the group’s genesis in Harlem in the 1960s, its role in the Black Arts movement, and the multidisciplinary interests and practices of its members, bringing together artists from the Kamoinge Workshop with scholars and critics of Black arts and culture.
Exhibition at Tang showcases symbols of activism
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Hand of Power Heart of Love banner, 2020, applique on fabricThe Free RadicalsShow MoreShow Less
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Eight-Color Commemorative Flag, designed 1978 by Gilbert Baker, made 2003, fabric, 33 x 74 inchesTang Teaching MuseumShow MoreShow Less
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Untitled (Eye with Rainbow and Fists), 2020, digital print on paper, 36 x 24 inchesWide Awakes (Otherward)Show MoreShow Less
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Last summer, as Jane Cole sat in protest, against the murder of George Floyd, she noticed something. The protest she was attending in Saratoga Springs where she lived had a number of powerful visual elements. Symbols painted on signboards that asserted identity, pride, power and demanded justice. It sparked a need to find out more within her and expressing herself in the way she knew best, Cole, an art history major at Skidmore College and the Carol Marschand endowment intern at the Tang Teaching Museum organized and curated