Prospect.5 Programming Partners
For Prospect.5, Keith and Nawi have convened a coalition of emerging cultural producers to create public programming in New Orleans throughout 2020 leading up to the triennial and during the exhibition: Grace Deveney, Kimberly Drew, Jason Fitzroy Jeffers, Kristina Kay Robinson, and Maricelle Robles. These program partners will realize a diverse range of events in collaboration with venues across the city, from museums and cultural centers to theaters and bars, bringing unique perspectives to the exhibition’s themes through their own work. They will create programs in partnership with local organizations that illuminate, expand, complicate, and challenge the ideas of the triennial. The programming partner concept a new model for Prospect and reflects from the artistic directors’ dialogic approach to this exhibition.
GRACE DEVENEY
Deveney will organize a series of film screenings and conversations between Prospect.5 artists in various locations throughout New Orleans. The programs will expand on the themes of the triennial by considering the ways the past remains palpable in liminal spaces such as airports, lighthouses, and churches, and the ways our actions in the present create new histories for these spaces.
KIMBERLY DREW
Kimberly Drew is a writer, curator, and activist. Drew’s book Black Futures, coauthored with Jenna Wortham, will be published in 2020. Drew will produce a salon-style meal with New Orleans cultural producers and activists that provides an intimate platform for discussions around accessibility and our shared responsibility to one another. This event will be the genesis for accompanying public programs around these issues.
JASON FITZROY JEFFERS
Jason Fitzroy Jeffers is a Miami-based Barbadian filmmaker and writer. He is Co-Executive Director of Third Horizon, a Caribbean filmmaking collective and film festival, and Cinematic Arts Senior Manager at Oolite Arts, one of Miami’s largest artist support organizations. Jeffers will bring elements of Third Horizon alongside his ongoing project Foggy Windows to Prospect.5, convening a series of conversations, parties, and dances centered around the elusive question, “Why doesn’t anybody slow dance anymore?”
KRISTINA KAY ROBINSON
Kristina Kay Robinson is a New Orleans–based writer and curator. Robinson coedits Mixed Company, a forum for fiction by women of color. Robinson also leads Room 220, a division of Antenna Gallery that advocates for New Orleans’s literary culture. She will produce a series of free literary events relating to history and voices of color throughout 2020.
MARICELLE ROBLES
Maricelle Robles is an art educator based in New York. Her work investigates cultural histories through experiences that connect people and transform scholarship. For Prospect.5 Robles will produce a series of convenings with curators, artists, and emerging scholars that will engage distinct regional and local histories.