Public Lecture: Folayemi Wilson

Folayemi Wilson. Photo by Nathan Keay.

Folayemi Wilson will share their work and process of mining history as material in their creative practice, and recent explorations into found textiles and other means of manipulating cloth.

Folayemi Wilson’s work celebrates the Black imagination as a technology of resistance and self-determination. Using original sculpture, found objects, archival media, sound and video, her process utilizes training in art history and critical theory employing the archive and other research methodologies to mine history for use as material in her creative practice.

Cranbrook Academy of Art’s 2024-25 Public Lecture Series is free and open to the public at Cranbrook’s deSalle Auditorium. Cranbrook Art Museum is open late and free to all on Thursdays, please arrive early to explore their current exhibitions.

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