Join Dirt for a New Eagle Creek Saloon Happy Hour with Hermetic State, MUSE(O)FIRE & Krystal C. Mack.

Dirt is an independent platform, collective, and resource for accessible critical arts discourse. Originally founded in the DC, Maryland, Virginia (DMV) area, Dirt focuses on direct engagement with artists, culture, and the forces that impact them. With that in mind, our approach is not limited by geography. We are interested in tracing the overlaps, exchanges, and conversations amongst our peer art communities.

Squeaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Summer 2022 artist residents, Muse Dodd (Atlanta, GA) and Rob Cosgrove (Sunnyside, NY). The two artists will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar.

Wavesss is a reclamation of Black Queer Trans identity through self-care ritual. Muse uses their body to map the lived experience of Africans in America channeling trauma to connect with, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through sound, video and poetry.

A community conversation with local activists, organizers politicians and business owners .
Anneke Dunbar-Gronke, Sharece Crawford, Nia Hampton, and Cheryl Dodd.

We'll be talking Reparations, Restorative Justice, the Prison Industrial Complex and Divestment.

Join us Sunday October 5th at the DC Arts Center as a part of Reparations Realized curated by Monique Muse Dodd.

Using photography, sound, video, installation, and public programming; Reparations Realized, invites artists to dream up what reparations should be and how this country has fallen short on its debt. This show is comprised of US-based Artists descended from enslaved Africans invites artists to dream about what our 40 acres and a mule would look. By envisioning what reparations should be, we are moving past the conversation of why and into the when. We can better manifest and actualize reparations for ours and future generations when we dream together.

image by Adrian Parsons, 2019

Presenters: Martina Dodd, Monique Muse Dodd, Tsedaye Makonnen, Tiona Nekkia McClodden

Organized by Martina Dodd, Atlanta University Center
Selected via Open Call

History is like a ghost that haunts our present through memory, subjectivity, and temporality. It refuses to go away; yet at times it is forgotten, misinterpreted, and altered. Buried deep in the recesses of our minds and shelved away in the allegorical graveyard of the archive, moments of the past live on forever. It is the act of remembering and recontextualizing that resuscitates such moments and breathes new life into their stories.

The panel of artists and curators explore the politics and poetics of remembering and (re)imaging their familial legacy within the African Diaspora while revising its omission within the lens of American history. This panel will focus on the research methods and creative processes of visual artists and curators who utilize both personal and public archives to explore the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. By examining the panelists’ interwoven roles of historian, archivist, and artist they will seek to critique and analyze the ways historical accounts are recorded and disseminated.

Free!

Deemed a “rising musical mastermind" by the Examiner, composer and vocalist Tariq Al-Sabir presents selections from his multi-media, genre-bending song cycle #UNWANTED at the Atrium. Written for a unique, ten-piece ensemble that includes voice, woodwinds, brass, percussion, synthesizer, and electronics, this poignant piece centers on Black people’s navigation through social media and access to technology. It examines several ways in which prejudices, phobias, racisms, and more transform themselves to exist online. Al-Sabir, who has premiered and performed commissioned works at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, National Sawdust, and MoMA, explores what it means to create and find a virtual community and home, as the cycle communicates in real-time with film.

Video direction by Monique Muse Dodd

Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Love is the only true act of Resistance: films from QTPOC
( Queer, Trans*, People of color)

"In a society that profits from your self-doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act. " - unknown

Hypervisibility & Marginalization of people of color in majority culture

Please join ARoS Artist Collective-in-Residence, Flux Factory, for a once in a lifetime experience at the STRICTLY BUSINESS MARTINI AUCTION in the ARoS Atelier. Prepare yourselves to be dazzled as one-of-a-kind signature art martinis are auctioned off to an eager and possibly thirsty public. 

to Bare the Rose ||| a visual memoir is a solo self-exploration of intimacy and trauma under love. This memoir recounts, redefines, and relearns truths of Black Queer Femme Love, and the ways violence retaliates against it. It is an interdisciplinary work encompassing movement, film, voice-overs, installation, and poetry to share the encounters of a lover who fails to love the self and others at the same time. This competition between self-love and self-lost manifests a need for truth seeking and vulnerability through memory. to Bare the Rose is itself a healing journey through acts of self-research, creating, and baring.

Videos by Monique Muse Dodd