Winter Term: Torkwase Dyson

For the first session, which will take place from February 24 to March 11, 2018, The Drawing Center invited artist Torkwase Dyson to create an installation and organize a two-week series of classes, discussions, and formal experiments developed from her incipient project the Wynter-Wells Drawing School for Environmental Justice—named for Jamaican writer Sylvia Wynter and American Civil Rights leader Ida B. Wells. The School will present an experimental curriculum employing techniques culled from the visual arts as well as design theories of geography, infrastructure, engineering, and architecture to initiate dialogue about geographic genealogy in an era of global crisis due to human-induced climate change. Participation in the classes will be by application with portions open to the public. Drawings and sculptures by Dyson will be on view throughout the program’s run.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.