Speakers

• Alexandria Wailes

  Alexandria Wailes is an actress and director. Her theatre credits include the Mark Taper Forum/Deaf West’s Pippin, Australia Theatre of the Deaf’s The Wild Boys, Kirk Douglas Theatre’s Sleeping Beauty Wakes, the Public Theatre’s Mother Courage and Her Children. On television, she has appeared in Nurse Jackie, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Conviction. She received an LA Ovation Award Nomination as Best Lead Female in a Musical for Sleeping Beauty Wakes and was a Tony honoree recipient for Ensemble in the Broadway revival of Big River.

• Ola Ronke Akinmowo

  Ola Ronke Akinmowo is a Brooklyn-born artist and community activist. She is a recent Culture Push Fellowship recipient for her new performance piece: The Free Black Woman’s Library, a radical mobile library and interactive biblio installation that focuses exclusively on the literary output of Black Women, highlighting authorship that is often ignored.

• Wendy W. Jacob

  Wendy W. Jacob is a multidisciplinary artist, whose work bridges traditions of sculpture, performance, and invention, and explores the relationships between architecture and perceptual experience. Jacob is also a member of the Chicago-based collaborative Haha. Jacob’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries Internationally, including the Centre Georges-Pompidou, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Kunsthaus Graz.

• Stuart Comer

  Stuart Comer was appointed Chief Curator of the Department of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art in 2013. He has previously held positions at the Institute of Visual Culture in Cambridge and at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, and was co-curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2014 Biennial and of the Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2007. He has also organized projects at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Beirut Art Center; Kunstverein Munich; CASCO, Utrecht; Frieze Art Fair, London; and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.