Artist Talk - Alexandria Smith: A Litany for Survival

Alexandria Smith is a mixed media visual artist and co-organizer of the collective, Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter (BWA for BLM), and an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Wellesley College. Her work in paint, print and mixed media interweaves memory, autobiography and history, exploring the transformative experiences of girlhood and illuminating the complexities of Black identity. Humor and a dark probing of social issues are filtered through her own mythology of a cast of characters, symbols and landscapes. Smith uses the language of print and paint media to investigate provisional themes of hybrid identities, domesticity, sexuality, time and space. Her talk at Roger Williams will provide insight into her work and process and explore the intersection between art and activism.