URe:AD Press
August 18 - October 13, 2017
URe:AD Press stands for “United Re:Public of the African Diaspora.”
URe:AD Press is grounded in shared inquiry and affinity for the African Diaspora, self-determination, audiovisual media, and DIY mobile printmaking strategies. URe:AD Press produces free transmedia events emphasizing a local group’s connection to a broader and deeper diasporic community across continents and history.
URe:AD Press’ work is site-responsive. It gathers Black communities and publics to view art, discuss, celebrate, and “Re:Imagine Together.”
URe:AD Press is led by artists Shani Peters and Sharita Towne— two Black women artists working nationally and internationally at the intersection of public art, historical narrative, and community building. Collectively they hold over 20 years of experience in art making, exhibiting, organizing, research, and pedagogy. Their work has been supported by institutions in their home regions and nationally by the Rauschenberg Foundation, Art Matters, Fulbright, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. They have traveled, shared and conducted work across 5 continents and 14 countries. Through URe:AD Press they share the lessons of this experience to harness a sense of collective purpose among Afro-Diasporic peoples, in shaping “our own shared representation.” Beginning from their local communities in Harlem, NY and Portland OR, stretching throughout the U.S. and abroad, they see their audiences as collaborators in a new vision/understanding of what the collective diaspora can be.
