CANCELLED: Fragments of Epic Memory: Julie Crooks and Prince Shakur in Conversation
January 19, 2025
11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Location: CMA
Fragments of Epic Memory: Julie Crooks and Prince Shakur in Conversation has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Please check out the additional activities happening on CMA Community Day.
Delve deeper into Fragments of Epic Memory—an exhibition that explores the Caribbean and its diaspora, bringing historical documents into dialogue with contemporary art—with the exhibition’s curator, Julie Crooks (Curator of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora at the Art Gallery of Ontario), and Jamaican American writer and activist Prince Shakur (author of When They Tell You to Be Good, 2022).
Julie Crooks is Curator, Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She holds a PhD from the Department of History of Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK. joining the AGO in 2017, she has curated a number of significant exhibitions, including Free Black North (2017), Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires (2018), and presentations from the permanent collection such as Photography, 1920s–1940s: Women in Focus (2019–2020) , Fragments of Epic Memory (2021-22), and over saw the Tate Britain’s, Life Between Islands: British-Caribbean Art from 1950s to Now (Dec 2023-April 2024). She has actively participated in bringing works by artists of African descent into the collection and most notably the Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs, acquired in 2019.
Prince Shakur is a multi-medium artist, educator, content creator, and organizer committed to exploring queer Black histories and radical narratives through storytelling. Since 2014, he has combined grassroots organizing with cultural journalism, contributing to Teen Vogue and Commune Magazine while engaging in movements like Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock. He co-hosts The Dugout, a podcast centered on Black anarchist perspectives and news. To his over 60,000 followers across social media, Shakur explores Black history/culture, anti-capitalism, the writing life, and more. He is an English adjunct professor at Lehman College and the author of the political coming of age memoir, When They Tell You To Be Good.
Please check out the additional activities happening on CMA Community Day.
Delve deeper into Fragments of Epic Memory—an exhibition that explores the Caribbean and its diaspora, bringing historical documents into dialogue with contemporary art—with the exhibition’s curator, Julie Crooks (Curator of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora at the Art Gallery of Ontario), and Jamaican American writer and activist Prince Shakur (author of When They Tell You to Be Good, 2022).
SPEAKERS
Julie Crooks is Curator, Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She holds a PhD from the Department of History of Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK. joining the AGO in 2017, she has curated a number of significant exhibitions, including Free Black North (2017), Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires (2018), and presentations from the permanent collection such as Photography, 1920s–1940s: Women in Focus (2019–2020) , Fragments of Epic Memory (2021-22), and over saw the Tate Britain’s, Life Between Islands: British-Caribbean Art from 1950s to Now (Dec 2023-April 2024). She has actively participated in bringing works by artists of African descent into the collection and most notably the Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs, acquired in 2019.
Prince Shakur is a multi-medium artist, educator, content creator, and organizer committed to exploring queer Black histories and radical narratives through storytelling. Since 2014, he has combined grassroots organizing with cultural journalism, contributing to Teen Vogue and Commune Magazine while engaging in movements like Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock. He co-hosts The Dugout, a podcast centered on Black anarchist perspectives and news. To his over 60,000 followers across social media, Shakur explores Black history/culture, anti-capitalism, the writing life, and more. He is an English adjunct professor at Lehman College and the author of the political coming of age memoir, When They Tell You To Be Good.
