Addy & Ferro: September 2008

Monday, September 29, 2008

First arrivals for fall...

Mackage coats

Kim White reversible (!!) handbags of vintage textiles

Aoyama Itchome

Our great end of season finds will have you smiling (big!)

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

A Great Day in Brooklyn Photography Exhibition opening Saturday, September 27th at MoCADA

THIS SATURDAY the 27th ::::::: OPENING SAT, SEPT 27th 3pm to 6pm ::::::

Everyday Brooklyn presents
A Great Day in Brooklyn
Photography Exhibition - Fort Greene Park
:::MoCADA::: museum
Corridor Space
80 Hanson Place // Fort Greene, Brooklyn
718 230 0492

OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, September 27th
3pm to 6pm

Exhibition: September 27, 2008 through October 15, 2008

Curator: Stephanie Baptist

On Sunday, June 22, 2008 over 100 Brooklyn-affiliated artists came
together in Fort Greene Park to participate in one of the largest group
portraits in Fort Greene history. Come to MoCADA to see the photographs
taken and meet the many artists who attended this shoot.

Photography by:

James Adams
Cochrane
KalaLea
Michael July
Ocean Morisset
Geralyn Shukwit
Sarah White

Calling our beautiful black brothers....

Photograph to be taken by critically acclaimed photographer, Chester Higgins, Jr.

80 Hanson Place, (corner of South Portland)
Thursday, September 25th 5:30pm-8pm

Brooklyn, New York 11217

I AM A MAN
On view
September 25, 2008 - January 18th, 2009

Curated by Kevin Powell
Organized by Laurie Cumbo and Kimberli Gant

If you are interested in participating in the photographic recreation of the I AM A MAN March, please arrive at MoCADA at 5:30 PM.

The Opening Reception for the I AM A MAN exhibition will begin with a gathering of Black Men from all over New York City who will pay homage to the courageous men who stood strong holding their I AM A MAN protest signs in 1968 by wearing a contemporary t-shirt version of that sign designed by artist Derrick Adams outside of MoCADA prior to the opening reception. This historic moment will be recorded by photographic icon Chester Higgins, Jr. MoCADA is inviting all men who wish to participate to arrive at MoCADA at 5:30pm.

The photo is limited to the first 200 men that arrive at MoCADA.

... About the I AM A MAN exhibition

The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) is proud to present the timely and provocative exhibition I AM A MAN. February 1968 saw 1,300 African American Sanitation workers strike to demand their basic rights to organize a union, to gain a living wage, and to garner respect and dignity deserving of all working men and women. The Civil Rights Leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., eventually came to Memphis to support the strikers and was subsequently assassinated. From those dramatic events, one phrase emerged that continues to inspire community activists forty years later, "I AM A MAN."

With this theme, twelve artists have been selected to create new work that immortalizes the 1968 workers strike as well as a reflection of their interpretation of what it means to be an African American man in America in 2008, forty years after the sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. This group exhibition includes a dynamic combination of painters, photographers, film makers and video artists:

Hank Willis Thomas, Russell Frederick, Rah Crawford, Radcliff Bailey, Charly Palmer, Leroy Henderson, Fahamu Pecou, Jefferson Pinder, Jamel Shabazz, Lorenzo Steele, Jr., Juan Sanchez and Ernest Withers.