Thu 12/1 @ 6:30-8PM
Through Thu 1/19/23
Trumpet player/composer Theresa May is a familiar figure in Cleveland’s music scene. She performs with the high-profile eclectic Black music ensemble Mourning [A] BLKstar, among other projects.
Now she’ll be opening a multimedia exhibit with Tri-C Performing Arts at the Eastern Campus gallery called Afrofuturism: Black Lives Will Exist in the Future.
Multimedia art exhibit on display through Jan. 19. Landing a grant from the Urgent Art Fund, May enlisted an array of artists in a variety of media to collaborate with her and augment a musical piece called “Afrofuturism,” written by composer Shanyse Strickland for solo trumpet with pedal effects and piano accompaniment, with a music video and photography show. The project focuses on the creativity of Black women. “The opening of the piece calls upon the ancestors with unaccompanied trumpet, followed by a middle section that dances to the beat of the African Diaspora, and ends with the spoken words ‘Black lives will exist in the future’,” the press release tells us.
The full cast includes mixing/mastering engineer David Aguila, recording engineers Pablo Castillo Gomez and Sharon Walsh, pianist Megan Denman, spoken word artist Eris Eady, stylist Chevè Freed, photographer Emanuel Wallace, videographer McKinley Wiley of the Dark Room Company, costumer Marco Alexander of Sound Kulture and capoeira artists Ismail Douglas and Cleotha McJunkins.
The show will open with a reception at the gallery Thursday December 1 @ 6:30-8:30pm, with a live performance at 7pm. It will be on view through January 19, Monday-Friday 10:30am-3:30pm. The reception and show are free and open to all.
tri-c.edu/afrofuturism_black_lives_will_exist_in_the_future