Join us on Thursday, June 15th at 6:00 PM at the Civitella Ranieri Castle for Jamal Cyrus & Tomás Q. Morín Presentations.
Jamal Cyrus, Visual Arts, USA (he/him)
Jamal Cyrus’ expansive practice draws on the languages of collage and assemblage, and explores the evolution of African American identity within Black political movements and the African diaspora. He is engaged with an aesthetic practice that aims to transform the most mundane materials into objects with rich, densely packed networks of meaning and purpose. Cyrus received his BFA from the University of Houston in 2004 and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. He has won several prestigious awards, including most recently a Guggenheim Fellowship (2023).
Tomás Q. Morín, Writing, USA (he/him)
Tomás Q. Morín is the author of Machete and two other poetry collections, Patient Zero and A Larger Country, as well as the memoir Let Me Count the Ways. He translated Pablo Neruda’s The Heights of Macchu Picchu, as well as the libretto Pancho Villa From a Safe Distance, and with Mari L’Esperance co-edited Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at Rice University and Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Thursday, June 15th, 2023
6:00 PM Welcome cocktail
6:15 PM Fellows’ Presentations
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