Educators' Preview with Artist Damien Davis

March 26 2024 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Educators are invited to a preview of the KMA's spring exhibition There Is A Body, followed by a hands-on art workshop led by artist Damien Davis. Davis uses symbols and icons to deconstruct and reimagine themes of identity and representation and looks forward across time and space through an Afrofuturist lens. He will discuss his current installation Stellar Reverberations: African Masks in Outer Space and lead teachers in an exploration of kinetic sculpture techniques that they can take back to their learning environments.

This program is free for educators. Registration required.

Damien Davis (b. 1984) is a Newark-based artist whose work has been showcased at prominent institutions including the Museum of Arts and Design, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Davis was formerly Curator of the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling in Harlem and is currently the Residency + Programs Manager at Project for Empty Space and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Purchase College (SUNY). His work has been profiled in the New York Times, Frieze Magazine, The Guardian, Hyperallergic, and Vulture.