Saturday, January 27
12-1pm, FREE!
Adama Delphine Fawundu | Ancestral Songs III, 2023 | Color woodcut | 28 ½ x 22 ½ inches | Published by Brandywine Workshop and Archives | Printed by Alexis Nutini, Dos Tres Press
Please join us on Saturday, January 27 at Highpoint for a conversation with Michele Parchment, Brandywine Workshops and Archives Executive Director, and Taylor Jasper, Walker Art Center Assistant Curator of Visual Arts. Michele Parchment and Taylor Jasper will discuss the work in the exhibition Flowing Abstraction: Contemporary African Diaspora Printmaking which is on view at Highpoint from January 26 through March 2, 2024.
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited to the first 40 people so it is recommended you arrive early.
About Michele Parchment: Michele A. Parchment is Brandywine Workshop and Archives’ Executive Director. She joined BWA in August 2023, succeeding Founder Allan L. Edmunds.
Parchment’s extensive résumé includes more than 30 years working with nonprofit and for-profit organizations in arts and museum management and as a senior supervisor for public engagement and educational programming, visitor and volunteer services, collections, exhibitions, cultural festivals, and community initiatives. She has worked with influential museums across the United States, and has served in leadership roles in developing and opening new facilities at the Sarasota Art Museum, FL; Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI; and Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture in Baltimore, MD. She began her career in the arts at the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, and was registrar/consultant with Diversity Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI), Miami, before joining BWA.
Parchment earned her BA in liberal arts from Excelsior University, Albany, NY; MA in history from American Public University, Charles Town, WV; and an advanced certificate in nonprofit leadership from Duke University, Durham, NC.
About Taylor Jasper: Taylor Jasper is The Walker Art Center Assistant Curator of Visual Arts having joined their team in January 2023. Jasper joined the Walker from the contemporary art space The Momentary, affiliated with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, where she most recently held the position of Curatorial Associate. Her curatorial focus has emphasized the work of emerging artists, site-specific projects, and multidisciplinary interventions.
Jasper brings a thoughtful and generous approach to her curatorial work, informed by an ethics of care and developed through collaborations with artists such as Olalekan Jeyifous, Auriea Harvey, and Kandis Williams. During her tenure at The Momentary, she co-curated and supported seven seasons of ambitious interdisciplinary programming, including exhibitions, artist residencies, and public art installations with artists Doug Aitken, Sarah Cain, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Martine Gutierrez, Eric N. Mack, Troy Montes-Michie, Simphiwe Ndzube, and Xaviera Simmons, among many others.
Before joining The Momentary in 2020, Jasper was a Curatorial Research Assistant at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), where she was an integral member of the curatorial and editorial teams for the touring exhibition and catalogue The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, organized by Valerie Cassel Oliver, the VMFA’s Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. She holds a BA in Africana Studies and Art History from The College of William & Mary.