Young Exhibition Makers: InJustUs
No Longer Empty is excited to announce this year’s exhibition InJustUs curated by the Young Exhibition Makers (Y.Ex) 2019 cohort! The show will be unveiled on Saturday June 1 in the D-Lobby of Kings County Hospital and be open to the public until June 24. More details about scheduling tours below.
InJustUs explores community wellness by sharing different viewpoints of various social injustices in the hopes of educating visitors. The exhibition features teen artists from across New York City whose work touch on issues relevant to police brutality, mental health, gender & sexuality, race and ethnicity, and immigration. Through the discussion of these themes, Y.Ex hopes that InJustUs serves as a mirror to the community’s concerns.
The Young Exhibition Makers have formed curatorial groups around themes that matter most to each of them. Each theme considered in direct relationship to community wellness:
- See Us as One explores how race and ethnicity play a role in everyday life and aims to ensure visitors walking through the work will leave with a stronger sense of empathy, and a smile.
- Love Without Borders addresses immigration under the Trump Administration.
- Listen aims to spread awareness regarding mental health and stresses the importance of how different mental illnesses impact people’s lives.
- InclUsive seeks to increase representation of the complicated nature of gender and sexuality.
- Our Lives Matter broadcasts the reality of police brutality and how it affects people of color throughout the world.
To schedule a group tour, propose a community event/collaboration or for more information on scheduled guided tours during weekdays, please contact Duneska Michel, Teen Programs Coordinator, at duneska@nolongerempty.org.
Please note, the exhibition is open to the public everyday during regular hospital hours, but guided tours must be booked in advance with Duneska.
While on campus, plan to visit the NLE Curatorial Lab’s exhibition, (after)care, in room CG-95. More details coming soon.
PUBLIC PROGRAMS:
Saturday June 1, 2019. 1pm-5pm: Exhibition Opening
Exhibition opening will include guided tours by Y.Ex, wheat-pasting workshop, free food from local restaurants AND MORE!
Saturday June 8 and 15. 1-5pm
DETAILS COMING SOON
2019 Young Exhibition Makers
See Us As One
Alirat Sanni, Michelle Muszkat Levine, Etharr Ahmed, Kalia Asencio, Hamza Ashar
Our Lives Matter
Givienna-Geneva Gordon, Elani Amélie Reyes, Emmanuel Desir, Nichelle Modeste, Nilajah Batts, Steph Martinez
Love without Borders
Elham Abuali, Umahani Hamad, Jade Villegas, Pernell Watford
Listen
Kimani Brown, Nyia Savannah Pilgrim, Marvens Volcimus, Benjamin Opoku
InclUsive
Carlitos Rodriguez, Emani Russell, Janae Stanford, Nazair Deondre Francois
