When We Gather: Community and Collaboration through Art

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Still of video depicting triptych of three women, all in white, that looks like they are holding between them a bright blue cloth rope though they are in different locations.

When We Gather (still picturing Samita Sinha, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Dell M. Hamilton), 2021, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, with Okwui Okpokwasili and LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs. With the participation of Dell Marie Hamilton, Jana Harper, Lisa E. Harris, and Samita Sinha. Directed by Codie Elaine Oliver. Digital video (color, sound, 5:42 minutes). Courtesy of and © María Magdalena Campos-Pons

Sunday, Apr 6, 2025

12pm

Online

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About

The exhibition María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold showcases the artist’s work in a range of media, as well as her commitment to foregrounding person-to-person exchange. For her performances, Campos-Pons invites fellow artists to contribute to the development of communal experiences. In this online program, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs and Dell M. Hamilton, two of Campos-Pons’s collaborators, will share their own work and discuss the collaborative process as fruitful source of creativity.

LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs and Dell M. Hamilton perform with Campos-Pons at the Getty Center on Saturday, March 22.

Mazie M. Harris is co-curator of María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold and associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the Getty Museum.

    Speakers

    1. Dell Marie Hamilton

      Curator and Artist

      Dell Marie Hamilton’s expansive practice includes curatorial projects as well as performance, painting, drawing, installation, video, sculpture, and photography. In 2021, she was a recipient of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston’s James and Audrey Foster Prize, and her work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Art in America, and NKA: Contemporary Journal of African Art, as well as in the anthology Antiblackness edited by Moon-Kie Jung and João H. Costa Vargas (Duke University Press). She lives and works in Boston.

    2. LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs

      Interdisciplinary Poet and Sound Artist

      Interdisciplinary poet and sound artist LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of Village (Coffee House Press 2023) and TwERK (Belladonna, 2013). Diggs received a 2020 C.D. Wright Award for Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Art, a Whiting Award (2016), and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship (2015), as well as grants and fellowships from Cave Canem, Creative Capital, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, among others. She lives in Harlem and teaches at Brooklyn College.

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    Duration

    Approximately 1 hr

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