On view now! Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Are We Reading Closely? is a two-part installation that prompts

On view now! Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Are We Reading Closely? is a two-part installation that prompts viewers to slow down and look closer to navigate fragmented images and text.   The installation debuts the first artwork to grace our historic columned façade, and continues inside with artwork installed along our brick arcade. Dive deeper into this installation in an artist workshop that gives a “close reading of close reading" on Thursday, November 19, or Thursday, December 17.  Rasheed is a Brooklyn-based artist, writer, and former public school teacher whose exploratory approach embraces unfinished, in-process thinking over easy interpretations—or “readings”—prompting the questions: Are we reading closely? Are we reading with care? Close reading is a specific way of analyzing text, but can also be applied to an artwork or event, helping a reader to go beyond the immediate meaning conveyed. Close reading can uncover and question unspoken assumptions hidden beneath stories, enabling readers to engage in careful and intentional reflection. Rasheed’s poetic visual play points to a limitless variety of individual, subjective experiences and opens a space for self-determination. For the artist, close reading is an exercise to hone attention and engagement as well as a strategy for liberation, particularly in respect to Black experiences.⁠  -- source link

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