Uploaded January 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In the spirit of the exhibition title—SIGHTLINES on Peace, Power, and Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa—Bard Graduate Center (BGC) has invited composer JJJJJerome Ellis, to create his own sightlines—ways of seeing the exhibited artworks through time, form, and space.
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JJJJJerome Ellis is an animal, artist, and proud stutterer. Through music, literature, performance, video, and photography he researches relationships among blackness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time. Born in 1989 to Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants, he lives in Norfolk, Virginia with his wife, ecologist-poet Luísa Black Ellis.
In the spirit of the exhibition title—SIGHTLINES on Peace, Power, and Prestige: Metal Arts in Africa—Bard Graduate Center (BGC) has invited composer JJJJJerome Ellis, to create his own sightlines—ways of seeing the exhibited artworks through time, form, and space.
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JJJJJerome Ellis is an animal, artist, and proud stutterer. Through music, literature, performance, video, and photography he researches relationships among blackness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time. Born in 1989 to Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants, he lives in Norfolk, Virginia with his wife, ecologist-poet Luísa Black Ellis.
