Events

2018
Nov. 20	Speaker: Brooklyn’s Guyana	Brooklyn Historical Society Brooklyn, NY
Nov. 15	Opening: Race, Myth, Art and Justice	CCCADI New York, NY
Nov. 14	Guest Lecture: The Black Atlantic & The Archive	University of Delaware Newark, DE
Nov. 12	Guest Lecture: Caribbean Writing, Reggae, & Routes	New York University Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
Oct. 29	Conversation: I Even Regret Night: Verses from Indenture	A/P/A Institute at NYU Co-hosted by Guyana Modern
Oct. 24	Speaker: What’s Left Behind: Artists, Archives, and the Preservation of a Legacy with Pellom McDaniels III, Ph.D.	Michael Rosenfeld Gallery New York, NY
Oct. 19	Lecture: “Envisioning Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man in Contemporary Art” Art of the Invisible Conference	The Courtauld Institute of Art London, UK
Oct. 6	Visiting Curator: City Wide Open Studios 2018	Artspace New Haven, CT
Fall	Teaching: “Caribbean Women and Creative Migrations”	New York University Department of Art and Public Policy
Jun. 26-27	“Daughters of Hypatia: Women as Art Critics, Historians, Teachers, and Theorists” Celebrating Female Agency in the Arts Conference	Christie’s New York, NY
May 26	Guyanese Cultural Festival on Guyana Independence Day	Queens Central Library Jamaica, Queens
May 22	A Mouth is Always Muzzled: Book Talk and Signing with Natalie Hopkinson	CCCADI New York, NY
May 1	Reel Impact: En el Séptimo Día	Brooklyn Academy of Music Brooklyn, NY
April 12	Reel Impact: The Stairs	Brooklyn Academy of Music Brooklyn, NY
April 5	Visually Speaking: “The Lost and Found Photographs”	Brooklyn Public Library
Mar. 26	Women, Art & Activism in the 21st Century	National Endowment for the Arts Washington, DC
Mar. 24	A Night of Guyanese Film Queen’s College of Guyana Alumni Association of NY	Brooklyn Public Library Brooklyn, NY
Feb. 8	“Art Talk: Explore a Career in the Creative Arts” Annual Student Conference	Queen’s College Georgetown, Guyana
Feb. 6	“Art Talk: Curating Exhibitions” Annual Student Conference	Moray House Georgetown, Guyana

2017
Fall	Teaching: “Contemporary Caribbean, Curatorial Practices and the Politics of Visibility”	New York University Department of Art and Public Policy
Spring	Teaching: “Artists, Social Change, and the Role of Journalism”	New York University Department of Art and Public Policy
Spring	Teaching: “The Imprisoned: Artists Examine Mass Incarceration in the US”	City College of New York Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
March 1	“Women in Photography and Film” A discussion with Maria Burns, Nadia Hallgren, Mae Ryan and Grace Aneiza Ali.	International Center of Photography New York, NY

2016
Spring	Teaching: “Artists, Social Change, and the Role of Journalism”	New York University Department of Art and Public Policy
March 6	“The Art of the Burqa”	Pen and Brush New York, NY

2015
Oct. 14-17	“Reshaping (G)local Dynamics of the Caribbean”	Leibniz University of Hanover Hanover, Germany
June 25-28	“Exploring Resilience Through Media” IVOH Restorative Narrative Summit & Awards	Peace Village Haines Falls, NY
May 28-31	Panel: “Framing Black/Brown Bodies” Smoke and Mirrors: Restitution and the Temporal Black Body, Black Portraiture[s] II: Imaging the Black Body and Re-staging Histories	Villa La Pietra, NYU Florence, Italy
May 21	Aljira’s 30th Anniversary Celebration	Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art Newark, NJ
May 18	Podium Literary Journal: A Reading	Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92 \| Y New York, NY
May 1	Artist Roundtable (A.RT) World Policy Institute / Arts-Policy Nexus	New York University Tisch School of the Arts
April 28	A Conversation on Photography in Ethiopia and Guyana With Aida Muluneh and Grace Aneiza Ali	Independent Curators International New York, NY
April 23-25	“A Portrait of Migration in the Guyana Photographic Archive” Photography and Migration Conference	Colby College Waterville, ME
Feb. 1	Publication: “The Imprisoned Issue”	OF NOTE Magazine
Spring	Teaching: “The Literature of Immigration”	City College of New York Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

2014
Dec. 2	Exhibition: A Worldview from Guyana: Four Guyanese Women Photographers	Addis Foto Fest Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Nov. 13	“Life in Prison: Artists Bear Witness”	Columbia University Institute for Research in African-American Studies
Oct. 11	“If You Build It, They Will Come” Out of the Binders: A Symposium on Women Writers Today	Bindercon NYC New York, NY
Sept. 30	“Guyana Modern” Curating Now: A Public Symposium	Independent Curators International New York, NY
Aug. 6	Georgetown Global Shapers	World Economic Forum Georgetown, Guyana
June 26	“Art, Activism, and Journalism” IVOH Restorative Narratives Summit	Catskills New York
June 12	“Guyana Family Photographs: Agents of Social Memory and Citizenship” Contemporary Caribbean Visual Culture: Artistic Visions of Global Citizenship	University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom
May 6	“The Global Caribbean Woman”	New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies
April 24	Visually Speaking: “A Worldview from Guyana”	The Schomburg Center New York, NY
April 12	“Cultural Identity: Mosaic or Melting Pot” My Culture, Your Culture	Lycée Français de New York New York, NY
Jan. 13	Visually Speaking: “Kamoinge at 50”	The Schomburg Center New York, NY

2013
Nov. 13	Visually Speaking: “The Image as Catalyst for Social Change”	The Schomburg Center New York, NY
Oct. 10	“How Art Impacts Public Policy”	New York University Department of Art and Public Policy
Oct. 5	“Transformative Arts & Humanities” 36th Annual Fulbright Association Conference	Washington, DC
April 29	Visually Speaking: “Women Image Makers”	The Schomburg Center New York, NY
April 19	“How Can Absence Be a Catalyst for Global Social Change?” Global Engagement Summit	Northwestern University Chicago, IL
Jan. 29	Visually Speaking: “Photographing a Culture through the Pages of Ebony Magazine”	The Schomburg Center New York, NY
Jan. 19	“Creative Resilience: Artists Meeting Adversity with Creativity”	World Economic Forum Davos, Switzerland