Join us for a conversation highlighting the work of CCCADI’s Afro-Caribbean Art Curatorial Fellows. Jade Foster, a British curator and founder of Black Curators Collective will be in conversation with Katherine Kennedy, curator and cultural practitioner working for The Fresh Milk Art Platform in Barbados.
Foster and Kennedy will discuss shared concerns and intersecting ideas in their transnational curatorial practices. They will also expand on some of the contemporary challenges and questions they are grappling with—including the role of curatorial practices within global crises and emergencies, visibility and survival of queer and Black Caribbean artists, building equitable artist-curator relationships, and resisting the exotification or pigeonholing of Caribbean artists.
The conversation will be hosted by Grace Aneiza Ali, CCCADI Curator-at-Large.
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Curators in Conversation is a CCCADI series dedicated to critical debate, dialogue, and engagement with curators of color committed to the artistic and cultural production of the Afro-Caribbean and its Diaspora.
Jade Foster is a British artist, curator and creative producer of Afro-Caribbean heritage based in Nottingham, UK and a current CCCADI Curatorial Fellow in Afro-Caribbean Art. They are a founding member and initiator of Black Curators Collective (BCC) with an upcoming project at Glasgow International 2021. Foster holds positions as a Trustee of Nottingham Contemporary, Assistant Curator at Primary, and Creative Programme Coordinator at New Art Exchange (NAE) in Nottingham. They are currently working with artist Maybelle Peters for Primary. As a freelancer, they have worked with UK New Artists (formerly UKYA); Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) Glasgow; Live Art Development Agency (LADA); performing borders and Never Done.
Katherine Kennedy is a Barbadian cultural practitioner and a current CCCADI Curatorial Fellow in Afro-Caribbean Art. She graduated from Lancaster University, UK with a degree in Creative Arts and currently works for The Fresh Milk Art Platform as the Communications & Operations Manager. Katherine has undertaken local and international projects at Instituto Buena Bista; The Vermont Studio Center; Casa Tomada; Akademie Schloss Solitude; Ateliers ’89; and Punch Creative Arena. Her writing has been published by platforms such as ARC Magazine, Sugarcane Magazine and Robert & Christopher Publishers. She debuted as a solo-curator with the exhibition ‘Social Geometry: Expanded Drawing Practices by Barbadian Artists’ at the Queen’s Park Gallery, Barbados.