In Conversation: Jen Everett and Dr. Blair Ebony Smith

Jen Everett is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, installation and time-based media. Her work is currently on display in in the Billiard Room on the first floor of 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis.

In her creative practice, Jen Everett centers relationships between rupture, Black interiority and knowledge production. Through her use of vintage ephemera, especially objects that celebrate the technology and memory of the photo album, the viewer can imagine the sounds of gathering with loved ones. During this special afternoon, Everett and Smith will discuss deep listening, sonics, archives and memory in their individual work and collaborations.

Dr. Blair Ebony Smith (artist alter ego, lovenloops) is a practicing artist-scholar and lover from Richmond, Virginia. As a sample-based sound artist, DJ and homegirl with Black girl celebratory collective/band, Saving Our Lives, Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT) We Levitate for over a decade, Blair deepened her love for Black sound, music and making space for Black girlhood study and celebration with Black girls. Her art and scholarship explore themes of memory, loops, home, collectivity, everlasting love and sound/listening.

Info: Mix and mingle with light bites and beverages available

Info: Artists Jen Everett and Dr. Blair Ebony Smith discuss their creative practices

Info: Mingle with the artists and your fellow attendees in the Billiard Room

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