Artist Carrie Mae Weems Performance & Lecture At Grace Farms

From Grace Farms: In March 2019, Grace Farms Foundation will present two public programs featuring distinguished artist Carrie Mae Weems. On March 23, the Foundation will stage a site-responsive showing of Past Tense, a performance-based work exploring enduring themes including social justice, power structures, and cultural identity. Prior to this, Weems will host a lecture about her prodigious body of work on March 15. These events at the award-winning building at Grace Farms mark the beginning of an extended residency, with details to be announced at a later date.

“Grace Farms Foundation is honored to welcome Carrie Mae Weems, one of the most important artistic voices of our time, and to help share her evocative work with the public,” said Sharon Prince, Chair and President of Grace Farms Foundation. “Her decades-long meditations on recurrent subjects, including violence, systems and consequences of power, and sexism resonate with the Foundation’s core initiatives. Her interdisciplinary work will add a new perspective in our mission to create more grace and peace in the world.”

Past Tense incorporates music, text, projection, and video to re-examine the story of Antigone, Sophocles’ Greek tragedy. The March 23 production will feature singers Eisa Davis, Francesca Harper, and Imani Uzuri; poet Carl Hancock Rux; dancer Vinson Fraley; and musicians Craig Harris, Eddie Allen, Calvin Jones, Adam Klipple, James Brandon Lewis, and Tony Lewis. Tickets to the 7 p.m. performance are $25 and are available online at gracefarms.org.

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