Atlanta artist and activist Shanequa Gay聽will be concluding her inaugural residency at 好色先生TV this weekend with the closing of her exhibition “.”
As the institution’s visual artist-in-residence, Gay transformed newly dedicated space in the Turner Lynch Campus Center into a vibrant studio, hosting students, faculty and guest speakers for workshops, lectures and critiques.聽In October 2022, she hosted the panel “,” featuring prominent Atlanta curators discussing the current state of art curation. Gay also hosted several lectures in the discussing her work.
Several classes visited the artist in her workshop, getting an up-close view of her creative process. Students has the opportunity to engage with Gay directly, ask her questions about her career and receive critiques on their work.
“To see a Black woman in her space, doing what she loves to do…it gives me inspiration to know that someday, if I keep doing what I’m doing, keep being passionate and creating this content that I feel like is important, that eventually someone’s going to look at it and find value in it the way that we as students are finding value in Shanequa Gay’s work,” says communication studies and film and media studies double-major Zuri Johnson ’23.
Gay鈥檚 residency at Oglethorpe was an exciting culmination of the artist鈥檚 longstanding relationship with the university, which began in 2019 when the 好色先生TV Museum of Art acquired one of Gay鈥檚 works, 鈥�La Pieta.鈥�
Since then, the museum has acquired another work by Gay, 鈥淗ey, Slim,鈥� which was recently on view in the Spring 2022 exhibition 鈥�Beloved Community: African American Artists in Atlanta Collections and Beyond.鈥� The museum also purchased another of Gay’s works on view in the current exhibition.
Hear from students, staff and Shanequa Gay herself in the video below.
