February 8, 2023
4:30 P.M.
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery
Join artist Baseera Khan and author Mecca Jamilah Sullivan for a conversation about American identity, gender, artistry, and more. Baseera Khan is a New York-based performance, sculpture, and installation artist who makes work to discuss materials and their economies, the effects of this relationship to labor, family structures, religion, and spiritual well-being. They say, "My life's work is dedicated to the development of my own legacy, on my own terms, with the use of fashion, photography, textiles and music, parody, sculpture, and performance, I manifest my femme native-born Muslim American experience.” Sullivan is the author of the novel Big Girl, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection and a best books pick from Time, Essence, Vulture, Ms., Goodreads, Library Reads, and SheReads.com. In her fiction, she explores the intellectual, emotional, and bodily lives of young Black women through voice, music, and hip-hop-inflected magical realist techniques. co-sponsored with the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University.
