NOAAMx Prospect : P.5 Artist Nari Ward in conversation with Shani Peters

1418 Governor Nicholls St,New Orleans LA 70116

17 January, 2022

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In celebration, recognition, and acknowledgment of MLK Day, join P.5 Artist Nari Ward in conversation with Shani Peters In celebration, recognition, and acknowledgment of MLK Day, join Prospect New Orleans P.5 Artist Nari Ward in conversation with Shani Peters, Co-founder of The Black School, have a conversation about his current and past work, including "Battleground Beacon", currently on view on our Historic Gardens. This day will also include our monthly market, supporting Black-owned businesses, farmers, and artists! This will be an indoor and outdoor event, providing ample space for social distancing. MASK ARE REQUIRED FOR ENTRY. About Nari Ward: Nari Ward’s sculptures incorporate a wide range of found objects, including strollers, shoelaces, obsolete technology, and fire hoses, juxtaposed to create evocative yet, open-ended installations. Through his materials, Ward raises questions about race, class, and consumption, and about how traces of these social phenomena are evidenced in everyday objects. Ward’s Prospect.1 contribution, Diamond Gym (2008), was a gemlike structure of welded steel and scavenged gym equipment located in the shell of the Battleground Baptist Church. The installation’s walls functioned as a bulletin board for community groups and individuals offering their services, making a connection between the social and activist functions of the destroyed Black church through the art that now occupied it. About Shani Peters: Shani Peters (b. 1981 Lansing, MI) is a multi-disciplinary artist based in New Orleans, LA. She holds a B.A. from Michigan State University and an M.F.A. from the City College of New York. Peters has presented work in the U.S. and abroad at the New Museum, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem; Seoul Art Space Geumcheon in South Korea; the National Gallery of Zimbabwe; and the Bauhaus Dessau. Selected residencies include those hosted by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, The Laundromat Project (NY), and Project Row Houses (TX). Her work has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Creative Capital, the Rauschenberg Foundation, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Peters is a former faculty member of The City College of New York, Pratt Institute, and Parsons School of Design. She is a Co-Director of The Black School, an artist initiated experimental art school that is presently working to build a physical home for it’s art education and community programming in New Orleans 7th Ward. She is a current Creative Capital Awardee and the 2021 CAPE Artist in Residence at Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, MS.