Year Three
Artist Panel
Americana/ble:
The Big Group Show
Tune in for a lunchtime chat about the value of artistic labor in times of trouble and what it means to be an American now.
Moderated by Karley Sullivan with Judith Braun · Tesora Garcia · Alex Gingrow · Danny Goodwin · Katie Chin · Jillian McDonald · Michael Scoggins · Couragee Stone
on zoom @ noon
May 21
Belonging to
the Air
Avery Irons:
Join us as writer Avery Irons returns to Kiddie Pool to share her debut novel, Belonging to the Air, just released this year. Open your heart with the story of honest "Bird" Bennett, a young, Black girl with a hunger to learn what lies beyond the walls she shares with her family in an Illinois freedman's town. As Bird comes of age, she reckons with domestic turbulence and what it means to fall in love. Rejecting a life of self-denial, she grows into herself in Harlem, before being called home again.
Sunday
May 17
Monuments
Walking tour
w/ Alexis Bhagat
Together we will walk and think about monuments; why we make them, and what we make them about. As the capital city of New York, Albany contains a concentration of memorials, mostly to wars and conquest. These war names, and names of the fallen, are recorded on the plaques and granite bases of monuments in and around the Empire State Plaza complex.
We will ask, what monuments are here, and what is missing?
Meet at Kiddie Pool, 128 Grand St. in Albany
Ending at West Capitol Park, 7:30 or 8pm
Thursday
May 7, 6pm
IMG: Kara Walker, Fons americanus (Tate Museum 2020)