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Publication: The Daily Iowan, , University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Three black curators — Anaïs Duplan, Eileen Isagon Skyers, and Gee Wesley — sat at the front of a crowded room in the Iowa City Public Library as a group of Iowa City residents took shelter from the first snow of the year in the room where the Black Curators Roundtable took place Monday night.
New York-based trans curator, poet, and artist Duplan works exclusively with black artists in his curatorial work. He is a co-founder of the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, which co-sponsored Monday’s event with the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art. Duplan is also an alumnus of the Iowa Writer Workshop.
Duplan discussed tropes within the art community and how each play into the view of race in the art world.
“What would it be like to create a space where black artists were allowed to be naughty, as it were, and really imagine...