Isabel Parkes with DonChristian Jones

Isabel Parkes with DonChristian Jones

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Online (Zoom)

Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Isabel Parkes is a curator, writer, and artist whose primary medium is institutions. In recent years she has worked with Performance Space New York and Creative Time to help reimagine their governing and operational structures, as well as on projects with artists including Phil Collins, Sarah Ortmeyer, and Leilah Weinraub. Prior to this, Isabel worked in Berlin's Sammlung Hoffmann and directed a project space. She holds degrees from Brown University and the Courtauld Institute of Art.

DonChristian Jones is a New York based artist, singer/songwriter, and producer. His work spans musical and time based performance, albums, video and public murals, blending genres of painting and performance installation. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 2012, where he studied painting both there, and abroad in Rome, Italy. Don has shown and performed at institutions such as The Whitney Museum, MoMA Ps1, New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Center, and was an artist-in-residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, Florida in 2017. In the spring of 2020, Don founded Public Assistants, a community arts space and mutual aid resistance hub, located in Crown Heights.

All lectures are free, open to the public, and presented online. RSVP required. 

To register, please email artvals@alum.calarts.edu with the subject RSVP PBVALS.

Poster credit: Naveen Hattis