Unsettling the Score: A Workshop with Kameelah Janan Rasheed

Exhibiting artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed will lead an open workshop for students and community members inspired by her exhibition, , currently on view at the Henry. Using scores as a method for engaging the world around us, Rasheed will demonstrate how she collaborates deeply with and creates new meaning from a broad range of written and found materials. Participants can expect to learn about Rasheed’s work as an artist and participate in prompts and directives that Rasheed uses in her pedagogy and practice.   

This program is in partnership with the Jacob Lawrence Gallery and part of their inaugural Liberation Book Club. This year-long program series hopes to honor the Jacob Lawrence Gallery’s commitment to social justice and to gather community to think about the work of liberation through shared texts, art, film, music, conversation, and workshops. More information at jacoblawrencegallery.com. 

Bio

A learner, Kameelah Janan Rasheed (she/her) explores communication practices and poetics across all species, states of living, states of consciousness, and substrates. She creates sprawling, “architecturally-scaled” installations; public installations; publications; prints; performances; performance scores; poems; video; learning environments and other forms yet to be determined. Most recently, she was awarded a 2024 High Desert Test Sites Fellowship at Joshua Tree; 2023 Working Artist Fellowship; a 2022 Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research; a 2022 Creative Capital Award; a 2022 Artists + Machine Intelligence Grants - Experiments with Google; and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts. Her recent solo exhibitions include REDCAT (2024), KW Institute of Contemporary Art (2023), Art Institute of Chicago (2023), and Kunstverein Hannover (2022). Rasheed is the author of seven artists' books: rub, lick, drink, eat (REDCAT and Rasheed’s publishing project, Scratch Disks Full, 2024); all velvet sentences as manifesto, Like a lesson against smooth language or an invitation to be feral hypertext (Emerson College and Rasheed’s publishing project, Scratch Disks Full, 2024); in the coherence, we weep (KW Institute, 2023); i am not done yet (Mousse Publishing, 2022); An Alphabetical Accumulation of Approximate Observations (Endless Editions, 2019); No New Theories (Printed Matter, 2019); and the digital publication Scoring the Stacks (Brooklyn Public Library, 2021). She is on faculty at the Yale School of Art, MFA Sculpture Department, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. Rasheed founded Orange Tangent Study, a consulting business that provides artist microgrants and supports individuals and institutions in designing expansive and liberatory learning experiences. Additionally, she founded The Little Octopus School, a roaming learning ecosystem for radical play and improvisation. 

Accessibility

This program will take place offsite at Jacob Lawrence Gallery. Please visit their website for full accessibility information. Please contact Henry Museum Services at 206.221.3850 or [email protected] with any additional questions or needs. 

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