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"La Vaughn Belle: A History of Unruly Returns" Members Opening
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National Nordic Museum Members are invited to join us for an exclusive preview of La Vaughn Belle: A History of Unruly Returns! Doors open at 5:00 pm. The artist will be onsite to discuss her current exhibition with a highly anticipated program in Osberg Great Hall, starting promptly at 6:00 pm. Reception to follow.
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La Vaughn Belle
BioLa Vaughn Belle makes visible the unremembered. By exploring the material culture, looking for hidden stories and connections, Belle creates narratives from fragments.
La Vaughn Belle
La Vaughn Belle makes visible the unremembered. By exploring the material culture, looking for hidden stories and connections, Belle creates narratives from fragments.
Working in a variety of disciplines her practice includes: painting, installation, photography, writing, video and public interventions. Her work with colonial era pottery led to a commission with the renowned brand of porcelain products, the Royal Copenhagen. She has exhibited her work in the Caribbean, the USA and Europe in institutions such as the Museo del Barrio (NY), Casa de las Americas (Cuba), the Museum of the African Diaspora (CA) and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DK). Her art is in the collections of the National Photography Museum and the Vestsjælland Museum in Denmark. She is the co-creator of I Am Queen Mary, the artist-led groundbreaking monument that confronted the Danish colonial amnesia while commemorating the legacies of resistance of the African people who were brought to the former Danish West Indies. The project was featured in over 100 media outlets around the world including the NY Times, Politiken, VICE, the BBC and Le Monde. Belle holds an MFA from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba and an MA and BA from Columbia University in NY. She was a finalist for the She Built NYC project to develop a monument to memorialize the legacy of Shirley Chisholm and for the Inequality in Bronze project in Philadelphia to redesign one of the first monuments to an enslaved woman at the Stenton historic house museum. As a 2018-2020 fellow at the Social Justice Institute at the Barnard Research Center for Women at Columbia University she researched the ‘citizenless’ Virgin Islanders in the Harlem Renaissance. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled How To Survive Colonial Nostalgia. Her studio is based in the Virgin Islands.
To visit her website, click here.
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