Dorner Prize Performance

Strand focuses on the 400-year history of slavery and resulting civil rights movements in the United States, and more specifically within Rhode Island. A performative work and an installation by Nafis White (RISD MFA 2018, Printmaking) and García Sinclair (RISD MFA 2018, Printmaking), Strand weaves together traditions of hair braiding, twisting, and decoration within the Black community with unapologetic, continuous accounts of horrific catastrophe and audacious triumph. In honoring centuries of Black beauty through the performative, Strand purposefully affirms and centers the marginalized, in rather strong contrast to most of the histories represented in the surrounding works of art.
A detailed performance schedule will be posted in April.
The Dorner Prize is an annual juried competition that invites RISD student artists and designers to create new installations, performances, programs, or digital encounters that engage the public by using the RISD Museum's physical spaces, object collections, and digital platforms. The Dorner Prize, named for distinguished early-20th-century RISD Museum Director Alexander Dorner, is made possible by a generous anonymous gift.