Wednesday, July 15, 5PM: FREEDOM SONGS: ARTIST TALK with KEVIN BLYTHE SAMPSON.
Wednesday, July 15, 5PM In this virtual talk, Kevin Sampson, a featured artist in the Mariposa Museum’s exhibit Freedom Songs will discuss his interactive, found object assemblage being created at the Union Chapel from July 12-19th. Kevin will create a sculpture incorporating objects found on the Vineyard or donated by the community. Its theme will be The Legend of the Flying Africans from African American oral history. In the sculpture, the Flying Africans will become a metaphor for the #Black Lives Matter movement, powered by youth who can no longer accept the failings of a society they are to inherit. Like the Igbos in the legend, they will don wings and sail toward change and a home offering a better future and new normal. Objects from the community as well as found objects, will be used (disinfect prior, please).
Kevin Sampson is a found object assemblage artist from Ironbound, NJ. Raised in a civil rights family, his first career as a police detective in Newark gave him “a unique perspective on the human condition.”
Admission is free. Email tthorpe@clamsnet.org to sign up and get the Zoom invitation. The program is sponsored by the Friends of the Chilmark Public Library. For more information, please call 508-645-3360.
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