Black Art Matters Lecture: Artist Shervone Neckles
At this month’s Black Art Matters (BAM) lecture, artist Shervone Neckles will speak about her work and career, including details about her exhibition, Shervone Neckles: Bless This House at MOCA Jacksonville through March 5.
ABOUT SHERVONE NECKLES
Shervone Neckles is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, community worker, and artist advocate, who uses repurposed materials and Afro-Caribbean sensibilities to retell histories and mythologies. By embellishing textiles, assemblage, printmaking, sculpture, and installation, Neckles connects the sacred and scientific, the past and the present, and life with the afterlife. Her work has been shown worldwide in both group and solo exhibitions such as Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY; Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ; For Colored Girls Museum, Philadelphia, PA; and Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, NY as well as internationally in places like New Dehli, India, Queensland, Australia, and Rome, Italy. In 2019, she was featured as part of the Venice Biennale’s Grenada Pavilion.
THIS SERIES IS FREE TO THE PUBLIC WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE JESSIE BALL DUPONT FUND.
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