Symposium: Naming the Wound & Breaking the Spell

Naming the Wound & Breaking the Spell is an exhibition that respond to the layered truths, contradictions, and acts of self-definition articulated in the poem A Black Woman Speaks by Beah Richards Centering themes of truth-telling, embodied memory, racial reckoning, and collective repair, the exhibition foregrounds voice as resistance, storytelling as survival, and truth as something lived, claimed, and continually re-imagined. A community of artists are invited to engage through bold, intimate, and expansive visual responses that honor complexity, memory, and becoming. The Exhibition will showcase artists from the Kevin Taylor Collection of works and the Armand-Paul Family Collection to include works from artists Carlos Martiel, Renée Cox and many more.

Opening Reception:

Friday, April 24, 2026 6:30 – 9:00pm

Will include a procession with Music from the Hudson River to Centro Civico Cultural Dominicano ending at the Children’s Art Carnival. Featured Performance by poet Anacaona Rocio Milagro.

Symposium Program:

Saturday, April 25, 2026 12:00 – 6:00pm

The April 24 symposium will feature a keynote address by Busi Peters-Maughn, Founder of Women Healing and Empowering Women (WHEW). The program will also include conversations with community organizations La Morada, a mutual-aid kitchen and Oaxacan restaurant in the South Bronx, New York City, and Patrice Solomon-Ortiz, Founder and CEO of SASS HARLEM INC. (Sistahs About Something Serious).

The symposium will celebrate a dynamic group of artists and makers whose work is rooted in social justice, healing, and restorative practices, including: Milagros Batista, master knitter and founder of Batista Collections; Dillon Gardner; Wilhelmina Grant Cooper; Dionis Ortiz; Madeline Rivera; and activist artist Marcos Saavedra.

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