IMMA invites members of the FNCI to celebrate the launch of IMMA Collection: Art as Agency and the opening of Kith & Kin: The Quilts of Gee’s Bend.
IMMA Collection: Art as Agency is a major three-year display from IMMA’s Permanent Collection which showcases over 100 artists from the 1960s to the present, highlighting key works including many recent acquisitions. By interweaving historical and contemporary narratives, Art as Agency, invites audiences to reflect on the evolving meanings and possibilities of art in shaping our understanding and action in the world.
Kith & Kin: The Quilts of Gee’s Bend marks the first showcase of the Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers in Ireland, a group of African American women from a small Alabama community with a 200 year tradition of quilt making, co-organised with Souls Grown Deep. Their quilts are both artistically and politically significant, rising to prominence during the Civil Rights Movement as symbols of Black empowerment and cultural pride. These works are deeply rooted in family, heritage and the history of their community.
We hope you can join us for the opening party, please click here to RSVP
