Virtual Event: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
As part of our current exhibition, A Different Kind of Weapon, Alabama Contemporary Art Center will be hosting a film screening of “The Call” by exhibiting artist Helina Metafaria. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Helina along with regional descendants/activists Cassandra Lewis Wallace, Lennora-Muti’ah Pierrot, and Kelly Finley.
Join Us on FACEBOOK LIVE
October 22nd at 5PM
Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, video, collage, and assemblage. Her work interrogates the politics of the body in space, particularly as it relates to notions of identity and citizenship. Helina has exhibited her work at venues including Museum of African Diaspora (San Francisco), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Smack Mellon (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (Detroit), and Modern Art Museum Gebre Kirtos Desta Center (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia). She completed her MFA in 2015 at Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her artist residencies include Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, MASS MoCA, and Triangle Arts Association, among others. She has taught in the BFA and MFA programs at the San Francisco Art Institute, Michigan State University, and Parsons Fine Arts. She is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow / Assistant Professor at Brown University and lives and works in New York City.