Out of the Picture
About
Watch Out of the Picture, a feature-length film about art critics living through a period of transformation for both art and media. These writers share their life’s work translating the experiences of art for others. Following the screening, hear from the filmmaker, Mary Louise Schumacher, in conversation with local and regional writers including Charlotte Abotsi, Jeneé Osterheldt, and moderated by artist Tyanna Buie, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director in RISD’s Printmaking Department.
Free. Registration requested for this in-person program.
This program is presented by the RISD Museum, the Fleet Library, the Center for Arts & Language, RISD’s Printmaking Department.
Mary Louise Schumacher is the executive director of the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation. She is a veteran journalist who has been uniquely focused on the research and support of the field of visual arts journalism for many years. She was the longtime art and architecture critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Arts & Culture Fellow with the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University in 2017, and the Clarice Smith Distinguished Critic at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2019. While a Nieman Fellow, she conducted a national survey of arts writers across the country, which resulted in a series of articles for Nieman Reports about the priorities and challenges of the field. After leaving daily journalism in 2019, Schumacher collaborated on a journalism-art project about citizenship and democracy, called This is Milwaukee, with artist-photographer Kevin J. Miyazaki.
Charlotte Abotsi is a writer, educator, and filmmaker from Providence, Rhode Island. As a spoken word poet, she has competed in several international slams, placing in the top 20 poets at the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam, and winning the 2017 Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam competition; her work has been written about in HuffPost and Mic. As a filmmaker, Abotsi has focused on documentary film, debuting her short documentary at the 2018 Ocean State Film Festival. She has received fellowships from the Pink Door Writing Retreat, the Incubator for Community-Engaged Poets, Tin House, DreamYard’s Rad(ical) Poetry Consortium, AIR Serenbe, and Define American.
Jeneé Osterheldt is a culture columnist who covers identity and social justice through the lens of culture and the arts. Her work centers Black lives and the lives of people of color. She is also the creator of A Beautiful Resistance, a multimedia platform and docuseries for The Boston Globe that centers Black voices and celebrates Black Joy.
Tyanna J. Buie explores her connections to images, fragmentation, appropriation, the contemporary condition, social media/commentary and identity. A Chicago and Milwaukee native, Buie earned her BA from Western Illinois University and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Buie has received numerous awards, including, the prestigious Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant, Kresge Artist Fellowship in the Visual Arts, the Grant Wood Fellowship in Printmaking at the University of Iowa, the 2020 Fellowship.art award, a top accelerator award/program funded through gener8tor, and the 2023 Ruth Arts/Mary L Nohl Alumni Award.