At its fourth annual "Culture in a Changing America" symposium on Saturday, Park Avenue Armory, together with lead partner National Black Theatre and nine additional New York City-based cultural institutions, announced the lead group of artists they commissioned as part of the 100 Years | 100 Women initiative. In addition to the Armory and National Black Theatre, the commissioning institutions are : Apollo Theater; The Julliard School; La MaMa Experimental Theatre Company; The Laundromat Project; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of the Moving Image; National Sawdust; New York University (Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts; Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity and Strategic Innovation; and Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture); and Urban Bush Women.
Abdu Ali, Music & Literature
Sama Alshaibi, Visual Art
Ngozi Anyanwu, Theatre
Armory Arts Education, Multi-disciplinary
Zalika Azim, Visual Art
Stefanie Batten Bland / SBB Company, Dance Theatre
Stephanie Berger, Photography
Hope Boykin, Dance
Mahogany L. Browne, Poetry & Literature
Zoë Buckman, Visual Art
Rashida Bumbray, Performance & Visual Art
Xu Cheng, Music
Elizabeth Colomba, Visual Art
Courtney Cook, Performance & Dance
Renee Cox, Visual Art
Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, Performance Art & Literature
Jennifer Ling Datchuk, Visual Art
Helga Davis, Music
Rose DeSiano, Visual Art
LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Multi-disciplinary
Abby Dobson, Conceptual & Performing Art
Nekisha Durrett, Visual Art
Adama Delphine Fawundu, Visual Art
Gayle Fekete, Dance
Jingyi Feng, Dance
Karen Finley, Performance Art
Ebony Noelle Golden & Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative, Multi-disciplinary
Jasmine Hearn, Performance & Dance
Marguerite Hemmings, Dance
Charlene Incarnate, Drag & Performance
Val Jeanty and Risha Rox, Sound Art & Performance Art
Chanon Judson, Dance
Tendayi Kuumba, Dance
L'Rain, Music
Mimi Lien, Architecture & Set Design
Shola Lynch, Film
Alicia Graf Mack, Dance
Tsedaye Makonnen, Visual Art
Thapelo Masita, Music
Muriel Miguel / Spiderwoman Theater, Theatre & Performance
Vernice Miller / A Laboratory for Actor Training, Theatre & Performance
Briana Del Mundo, Dance
Love Muwwakkil, Performance & Dance
Meshell Ndegeocello & Staceyann Chin, Music & Poetry
Lorie Novak, Visual Art
Lindsay Phillips, Dance
Toshi Reagon, Music
Kyle Ritenauer, Music
Yelaine Rodriguez, Visual Art
Huang Ruo, Music
Hannah Rosenzweig & Wendy Sachs, Film
Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw / Split Britches, Theatre & Performance
Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Multi-disciplinary
Dianne Smith, Visual Art
Sonic and Womxyn Amplify Vibrations Collective, Music
Samantha Speis, Performance & Dance
Amy Rox Surratt / Mistakes Made Theatrical Co, Theatre & Performance
Jaime Sunwoo, Multimedia & Performance
Lourdes Kalichi'naru Lebron, Michelle Lopez & Kasibahagua Taíno Cultural Society, Ceremonial Taino dance
Murielle Borst-Tarrant/Safe Harbors Indigenous Collective, Theatre & Performance
Cyrie Topete, Choreography
Katherine Toukhy, Mixed Media
Carmelita Tropicana, Performance Art
Sahar Ullah, Theatre
Imani Uzuri, Music
Elaisa Van Der Kust, Performance & Dance
Mikaila Ware, Performance & Dance
Angela Wee, Music
Carrie Mae Weems, Muliti-disciplinary
Deborah Willis, Visual Art
Zhou Yi, Music
Bora Yoon, Music
Pamela Z performed by Amanda Gookin (Forward Music Project), Music
Tickets for the May celebration are available for purchase at www.armoryonpark.com.
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