Porchia Moore Phillips Conversation

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Porchia Moore leads a discussion in the “People on the Move: Beauty and Struggle in Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series” galleries. All photos: Laura Hoffman

How do works in special exhibitions People on the Move: Beauty and Struggle in Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Whitfield Lovell: The Kin Series and Related Works relate to current issues of racial injustice and discrimination? Porchia Moore visited the Phillips in November to tackle this question with Phillips visitors. See below for photos and a live-tweet of the conversation.

This was the second in a series of three open conversations that use The Migration Series as a jumping off point for discussions about current issues; join us for the third installment this Thursday with the DC Jazz Festival’s Sunny Sumter, who will be facilitating a discussion focuses on themes of identity, community, and what it means to be an American. See the storify of last month’s talk below. Follow along or join the conversation with #PhillipsConversation.

 

Talking Migration and Identity with Wajahat Ali

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Wajahat Ali facilitates the first #PhillipsConversation in a monthly series this fall. Photo: Laura Hoffman

Last month, Wajahat Ali visited the Phillips to facilitate the first #PhillipsConversation in a monthly series taking place during the fall of 2016. We came up with the idea for these open conversations in the hopes that they would serve as a platform for audiences to further engage on larger issues represented in People on the Move: Beauty and Struggle in Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series. Each talk begins with a “big idea” and follows with questions related to the monthly #PhillipsConversation prompt on the first floor of the museum. Wajahat Ali’s discussion focuses on themes of migration and immigration. See the storify from the Phillips’s live tweets and participants inside and outside of the galleries below, and join us for the next #PhillipsConversation with Porchia Moore on Nov. 10.

Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes with Antony Gormley

Walking through the galleries this morning, I happened upon a very charming crowd of children mesmerized by Antony Gormley‘s spiky sculpture Aperture XIII (2010) and even more mesmerized by the artist himself, who engaged them in an impromptu discussion about what they saw (a tree with a sun for a head! a satellite exploding around a brain!)

  Cecilia Wichmann, Publicity and Marketing Manager

(left) Antony Gormley, Aperture XIII, 2010. Steel, 74 3/8 x 21 1/4 x 11 3/8 in. Private collection © Antony Gormley. Image courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. Photo: Stephen White, London. (right) Antony Gormley speaks with a group of children about his sculpture in the Phillips exhibition. Photo: Cecilia Wichmann

(left) Antony Gormley, Aperture XIII, 2010. Steel, 74 3/8 x 21 1/4 x 11 3/8 in. Private collection © Antony Gormley. Image courtesy Sean Kelly Gallery, New York. Photo: Stephen White, London. (right) Antony Gormley speaks with a group of children about his sculpture in the Phillips exhibition. Photo: Cecilia Wichmann

Antony Gormley and a group of children discuss his sculpture

Photo: Cecilia Wichmann

Antony Gormley talks with the kids about the brain of his sculpture Aperture XIII.

Photo: Cecilia Wichmann