May 29 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Wednesday May 29, 2024
6:00 – 8:00 pm
Join us for a conversation between Jacqueline Bishop, featured artist at the International Ceramic Art Fair (ICAF), and Ronald Cummings, associate professor in the Faculty of Humanities’ Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Jacqueline is represented by Ferrin Contemporary in Massachusetts.
This discussion will examine Bishop’s most recent work, Narratives of Migration, which traces family histories of migration and in particular, migration journeys between Jamaica and England. These family portraits and narratives become one way of mapping a history of colonial relations and genealogical entanglements. According to Bishop “it is both my family’s history and a larger English/Jamaican history that I have sought to trace.” Images of family in Narratives of Migration are also layered with flora and fauna “taken from the island to fill English gardens and give rise to the field of Natural history.”
The conversation will also explore Bishop’s ongoing attention to Caribbean lives and landscapes across her visual work, including her plates and porcelain tea services: The Market Woman’s Story, History at the Dinner Table, The Keeper of All The Secrets, and Fauna.
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General : Free with registration
About Jacqueline Bishop
Jacqueline Bishop is an accomplished writer, academic, and visual artist with exhibitions having taken place in Belgium, Morocco, Italy, Cape Verde, Niger, the United States, and Jamaica. In addition to her role as Clinical Full Professor at New York University, Jacqueline was a 2020 Dora Maar/Brown Foundation Fellow in France, a 2008-2009 Fulbright Fellow in Morocco, and a 2009-2010 UNESCO/Fulbright Fellow in Paris. Jacqueline has received several awards, including the OCM Bocas Award for her book “The Gymnast & Other Positions,” the Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for short story writing, the Arthur Schomburg Award for Excellence in the Humanities from New York University, a James Michener Creative Writing Fellowship, as well as several awards from the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission.
About Ronald Cummings
Ronald Cummings is an associate professor of Caribbean literature and Black diaspora studies at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. He is the coeditor of three critical volumes, including, with Natalee Caple, Harriet’s Legacies: Race, Historical Memory and Futures in Canada (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2022); and the editor of Make the World New: The Poetry of Lillian Allen (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2021). His essay “I am all their dreams” is part of the art catalogue for the show “The Plural of He” (curated by Andil Gosine) currently on at the Leslie Lohman Gallery in New York.
About the International Ceramic Art Fair
The International Ceramic Art Fair (ICAF) returns to the Gardiner Museum from May 23 to June 2, 2024. ICAF is a 10-day celebration of some of the most compelling recent ceramic art, featuring works by emerging and established artists from a wide range of backgrounds, as well as online and in-person programming by artists and curators. Learn more
With thanks to our 2024 Honorary Committee
The Hon. Hilary Weston (Chair) / James Appleyard / The Hon. Nicole Eaton / Yvonne Fleck / Victoria Jackman / Ydessa Hendeles / Nancy Lockhart / The Hon. Margaret McCain / David Mirvish / Kent Monkman / Melanie Munk / Mia Nielsen / Lynda Prince