pROGRAMs
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Art At Noon: John Rhoden and Arts Criticism
February 21, 2024
John Rhoden was an accomplished, world-traveled artist, but is underrecognized in American art history. Join curators Brittany Webb and TK Smith as they consider how the press coverage and arts criticism impacted the careers of artists like John Rhoden and the careers of artists today.
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Hand to Mouth Curator Talk
February 10, 2024
Join TK Smith as he walks an audience through the exhibition Hand to Mouth at Stove Works.
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Material Memory Artist Talk
January 13, 2024
Artist talk for Kelly Taylor Mitchell and Sergio Suárez: Material Memory at Swan Coach House Gallery.
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ICA’s Student Board Presents: Art UnPhiltered
December 19, 2023
Watch Grace Busser ’25 in conversation with TK Smith, Assistant Curator: Art of the African Diaspora at the Barnes Foundation, on curating, teaching, and working in the museum field.
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The Scream: Self-Portraiture that Expresses Universal Emotions
December 12, 2023
Gross McCleaf artist, Mickayel Thurin discusses her practice with TK Smith, Assistant Curator: Art of the African Diaspora at the Barnes Foundation.
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Yale Center for British Art Artists in Conversation | Sonya Clark
September 29, 2023
Sonya Clark in conversation with TK Smith, Assistant Curator: Art of the African Diaspora, the Barnes Foundation for Yale Center for British Art
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Beyond the Block: The Public Art of Romare Bearden
June 13, 2023
The WPI hosted a conversation dedicated to the lesser-studied sphere of Romare Bearden’s art making: his public art. In his later career, he translated his iconic collage making practice into larger-than-life ceramic, mosaic and painted murals displayed in salient communal spaces around New York, Charlotte, Baltimore and more.
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DOCUCOURSE: ART & ADVOCACY INTERVIEW
Recorded Interviews with Art Advocates Michael Toombs and TK Smith.
October 3. 2022
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STEVEN ANTHONY JOHNSON II IN CONVERSATION WITH RE’AL CHRISTIAN AND TK SMITH1
Held in conjunction with Steven Anthony Johnson II: Getting Blood from Stone, the artist will speak with exhibition curator Re’al Christian and guest speaker TK Smith.
August 16, 2022
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Finished Enough: A Conversation Between TK Smith and Ruth Fine
A conversation between Ruth Fine and TK Smith on the art of Larry Day.
April 1, 2022
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Creating the Context w/ curator and writer TK Smith
Studio Noize: Black Art Podcast Ep 133
March 8, 2022
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SCRIPTURE, FOLKLORE, AND HEARSAY: WITH DIEDRICK BRACKENS AND TK SMITH
Watch artist Diedrick Brackens and TK Smith hold an intimate gallery conversation about Brackens’ solo exhibition heaven is a muddy riverbed.
Craft Contemporary
February 5, 2022
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Larry Day’s Legacy: A Panel Discussion
Larry Day’s Legacy: A Panel Discussion with TK Smith, Kelly Micca, Patricia Moss-Vreeland, and Scott Noel
Gross McCleaf Gallery
January 28, 2022
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A Game of Charades
A Game of Charades: Roundtable Discussion on the Art of Larry Day
Mariel Capanna, Joseph Fyfe, Tyler Goldman, and Sarah McEneaney in a roundtable discussion moderated by TK Smith
Woodmere Art Museum
January 13, 2022
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BEAUTIFUL BOUND BODIES
Beautiful Bound Bodies: The Ethics of Beauty and Elusive Justice
Saint Louis Literary Award
October 28, 2021
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ENTANGLEMENTS WITH THE EROTIC
Entanglements with the Erotic: Roland Ayers and the Liberation of Flesh
Woodmere Art Museum
October 20, 2021
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FUTURE / NO FUTURE
Future / No Future takes on the potentiality and poetics of oblivion as an approach to our precarious futures. Oblivion, understood as the state of being unaware or forgotten, reflects the existential realities of a marginal queer and trans life. Who will hold this body, who will bury this body, who will remember this body?
Slought Gallary
August 31, 2021
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TIGHT LIKE THAT
Contemporary Talks, Atlanta Contemporary
Danielle Deadwyler, Nisa Floyd, Tyra A. Seals, and TK Smith
On the occasion of Virtual Remains exhibition
July 17, 2021
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A Queer Rebirth in Three Parts
Contemporary Talks, Atlanta Contemporary
Shane Dedman, Daren Fowler, and TK Smith
On the occasion of Virtual Remains exhibition
May 29, 2021
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Adam Forrester and Artemus Jenkins
Contemporary Talks, Atlanta Contemporary
Adam Forrester, Artemus Jenkins, Nisa Floyd, and TK Smith
On the occasion of Virtual Remains exhibition
March 13. 2021
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They All Fall Down
Miranda Kyle, Morgan Lugo, Isaac Duncan III, and TK Smith
National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art & Practices
March 31, 2021
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Monumental Futures
PAFA Art at Noon
Dr. Brittany Webb and TK Smith
January 27, 2021
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Body Memory: A Conversation on Stone and Flesh
Real Art Ways
Jeffrey Meris, Marisa Williamson, Sarah Fritchey, and TK Smith
January 28, 2021
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Of Earth, Bone, and Spirit
Of Earth, Bone, and Spirit: Craft Tradition, Cultural Continuity, and the Work of Zipporah Camille Thompson
Decorative Art Trust, Trust Talks
November 16, 2020
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Abstraction as a State of Being
Abstraction as a State of Being: Identity, Fragmented Archives, and the Photographs of Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun
Flaten Art Museum at St. Olaf College
October 22, 2020
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Curators in Conversation
Caribbean Cultural Center (CCCADI)
Jonathan Square, Grace Aneiza, and TK Smith
October 28, 2020
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The Black Body and the State
CoLA-Verse Summer Discussion Series, Woodbury University
August 6, 2020.
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ART PAPERS Virtual Talks
Lauren Tate Baeza and TK Smith
July 23, 2020
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ART PAPERS Virtual Talks
Re’al Christian and TK Smith
June 18, 2020
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Writing, Curating + Connecting with Artists during COVID-19
AUC Curatorial Collective IG Live Talks
Cheryl Finley and TK Smith
May 1, 2020
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A Meditation on the Loom
Zipporah Camille Thompson, Deidrick Brackens, and TK Smith
On the occasion of Looming Chaos
July 2019