For 2022, POWarts continues the Trailblazers series featuring members of our community who are breaking barriers, working to make the art world more equitable, and paving the wave for the next generation.
Join us as we hear from Alison Kuo, Arts Residency Manager at ISCP. Alison will be joined by artist, writer, curator & organizer, Stephanie Acosta, and Founder of Be Reel Black Cinema Club, Stephanye Watts.
In advance of the program, we invite you to email info@powarts.org with questions that you would like addressed during the conversation.
Free for Members, $10 Non-Members
Alison Kuo serves as the Arts Residency Manager at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, New York. She is a member of the New York Chinatown arts community where she co-runs the group Sisters in Self-Defense, a group of Asian American women united in self-defense training. Kuo is also an artist who works in a space where food, performance and sculpture collide.
Stephanie Acosta is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator and organizer. Acosta has produced and presented works with and for Museum of Art and Design, Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, Knockdown Center, the Current Sessions, Miami Performance International Festival, Anatomy Collective, the Chicago Park District, the Performance Philosophy conference, and High Concept Labs, among others. She is committed to furthering the experimental voices of New York and Chicago's performance art communities. A Cuban American born and raised in Miami, Florida, and currently residing in Brooklyn, Acosta works extensively with unseen histories, performance, experimental radio, and film. In her art, she places the materiality of the ephemeral at the center of her practice, questioning meaning-making and manufactured limitations.
Stephanye Watts is the founder of the Brooklyn-based Be Reel Black Cinema Club, a group dedicated to amplifying independent, rare + previously inaccessible films by supporting Black filmmakers, one monthly meet-up at a time. A graduate of Clark Atlanta University, Stephanye is an arts worker that has previously served as Program Coordinator at Recess, an artist-led alternative to incarceration youth program and Community Engagement Manager at Weeksville Heritage Center, which commemorates one of America’s first free Black communities. When the Philadelphia native isn't pushing the Black agenda, she is the woman behind the R&B trivia night #RhythmNBodyroll and the music podcast, The Psyce.
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