Double Dutch & Card Table Convos with Artist Na'Ye Perez

Join exhibiting artist Na’Ye Perez in a game of cards or double dutch as part of his social engagement-based performance pieces Mama Said (There Be Days Like This) and Card Table Convos. These interactive activities reimagine how museum and gallery spaces function by centering the community and accessibility to the arts.

The event takes place right outside of the Kasser Theater lobby. Co-sponsored by Campus Recreation and the Office for Social Justice & Diversity.

Teaching to Transgress, featuring the artwork of Na’Ye Perez, explores themes of community, presence, shared experiences, identity, and accessibility. Perez’s antidisciplinary practice spans painting, drawing, printmaking, performance, and socially engaged art, transcending traditional academic boundaries to present innovative frameworks and methods.

The exhibition title draws inspiration from bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, a text that brings practical knowledge of the classroom alongside emotions and personal expression. Visitors are invited to engage with Perez’s work through our community classroom on the Bloomberg Connects app.

Na’Ye Perez (b. 1992) is a Haitian-Cuban artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been exhibited at the Community Folk Art Center at Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY); RegularNormal Gallery (New York, NY), 129 Studio Gallery (Columbus, Ohio) Residency Gallery (Los Angeles,CA); Welancora Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), He has been an artist in residence at The Shed’s DIS OBEY (Queens, NY); New Wave (West Palm Beach, FL); and Pratt>FORWARD (New York, NY). Perez holds a BFA from the University of Toledo in Ohio and an MFA from Pratt Institute in New York.

Visitors are encouraged to wear masks. Please review Montclair State University's complete COVID-19 policies here.

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