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#Biden Awards 20 National Medals of the #Arts, Recipients Include #CarrieMaeWeems, #MarkBradford, & #SpikeLee
#POTUS also awarded National #Humanities Medals
Biden celebrated excellence in the #arts & humanities, awarding the National Medal of the Arts to #VisualArtists Mark Bradford & Carrie Mae Weems, & #filmmaker Spike Lee. The #artists are among 20 recipients POTUS recognized w/the National Medal of the Arts…
#culture #politics #democrats #WhatMatters #USpol
https://www.culturetype.com/2024/10/21/president-biden-will-award-20-national-medals-of-the-arts-recipients-include-carrie-mae-weems-mark-bradford-and-spike-lee/
The 2022 & 2023 National Medals of the #Arts were awarded in a private ceremony at the White House this evening, followed by remarks….The event also includes a presentation of the National #Humanities Medals.
Recipients…are #pioneers & #models in their fields. #LosAngeles-based #MarkBradford makes complex, abstract paintings that explore #social & #political structures & the adverse ways they impact #vulnerable communities.
…An #artist & #activist, Bradford is the co-founder of #Art & Practice in Leimert Park, a #nonprofit that supports local transition-age foster youth & children experiencing #displacement around the world. “Mark Bradford: Exotica” recently opened at Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong & “#MarkBradford: Keep Walking,” the artists’ first solo exhibition in #Germany, is currently on view at the Hamburger Bahnhof in #Berlin.
The longstanding practice of Weems is insightful meditation on #race, #history, & #power. She works across #photography, #video, & #installations. Best known work:“The Kitchen Table Series”, examines the experiences of #women. A few wks ago, she launched “Contested Sites of Memory: A Performance w/ Artist #CarrieMaeWeems” at the Institute for Contemporary Art at VA Commonwealth U in Richmond. The traveling performance about #racial #healing will be staged in #NY & #Washington, #DC, in 2025.
Scheduled to coincide w/the #election, “#CarrieMaeWeems: The Shape of Things” is currently on view at Gladstone Gallery in #NY. The exhibition is anchored by “Cyclorama: The Shape of Things” a #video #installation in the round that explores the history of #RacialJustice & contemporary #PoliceKillings of #unarmed #BlackMen. Part of a #ForFreedoms initiative, a billboard by Weems was installed near the #DNC in #Chicago in Aug.
The billboard featured images of #CarrieMaeWeems standing before the #LincolnMemorial, accompanied by the following text: “With #democracy in the balance there is only one choice.”
#SpikeLee’s movies are cultural touchstones. Over >3 decades, his seminal #films have included … “Do The Right Thing,” “She’s Gotta Have It,” “Crooklyn,” & “Mo’ Better Blues”; a biopic of #MalcolmX &
“4 Little Girls,” a documentary about the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church that killed 4 Black Girls in 1963; & big budget features like “Inside Man” & “BlacKkKlansman,” for which Lee won the Oscar for Best Screenplay in 2019.
#SpikeLee found success through perseverance, creating a path & opportunities for other #Black #directors in #film & #television.
#AddieMaeCollins #CarolDeniseMcNair #CynthiaWesley #CaroleRosamondRobertson