Poetry in Color: A Virtual Slam Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Biddy Mason @lacma
Poetry in Color: A Virtual Slam Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Biddy Mason  @lacma
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Join us for a celebration of the life and legacy of Biddy Mason, presented in conjunction with a monument by Ada Pinkston for LACMA × Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives. Featured poets include Funmilola Fagbamila, Tonya Ingram, and Dara T. Mathis. Hosted by Tyree Boyd-Pates, Associate Curator of Western History, Autry Museum of the American West, with an introduction by Cheryl Cox, descendant of Biddy Mason.

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About LACMA x Snapchat: Monumental Perspectives

This new initiative uses augmented reality to explore monuments and murals, representation, and history. Monumental Perspectives brings together artists and technologists to create virtual monuments that explore just some of the histories of Los Angeles communities in an effort to highlight perspectives from across the region. In consultation with community leaders and historians, the first cohort of artists, Mercedes Dorame, I.R. Bach, Glenn Kaino, Ruben Ochoa, and Ada Pinkston, examine key moments, figures, and monumentality in the region’s past and present through augmented reality experiences.


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Poetry in Color: A Virtual Slam Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Biddy Mason

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