Artists in Dialogue | Alysia Nicole Harris & Charisse Pearlina Weston
Alysia Nicole Harris / Charisse Pearlina Weston
Alysia Nicole Harris
Charisse Pearlina Weston
Charisse Pearlina Weston, to lift the flesh of its flesh, the bone of its bone (Brockton Trial Court, June 3, 2020; after collapse), 2022, slumped and enfolded glass, photographic decal, etched text, and lead, courtesy of the artist. © Charisse Pearlina Weston
April 6, 2023
The “Artists in Dialogue” series invites Black contemporary artists to engage in conversation about their work or other topics they would like to address. Tonight’s edition features Alysia Nicole Harris and Charisse Pearlina Weston.
With expertise in the literary arts, Harris examines Black vernacular practices as well as the intersections of faith, violence, and the natural world. Weston approaches the affective registers of Blackness in the context of environmental risk, alchemizing glass to represent the poetics of collapse, not only in relation to architectural deterioration, but also in the un- and re-making of Black subjectivities.
Plan Your Visit
This program is free, with seating on a first-come, first-served basis in Lynn Wyatt Theater, located in the Kinder Building. On Thursdays, the Museum is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. with free general admission.
About the Artists
Alysia Nicole Harris is a poet, performer, linguist, and arts writer based in Atlanta. She is the author of How Much We Must Have Looked Like Stars to Stars, and her work has appeared in publications including Best New Poets, the Dallas Morning News, Indiana Review, Nasher Magazine, and Solstice Literary Magazine.
Houston native Charisse Pearlina Weston is a conceptual artist and writer whose work is grounded in a deep material investigation of symbolic and literal poetics and the autobiographical. She contends with the dynamic interplay of violence and intimacy through repetition, enfoldment, and concealment.
General admission to the MFAH is free on Thursdays, courtesy of Shell Oil Company.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation; and the Texas Commission on the Arts. Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ballard; Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Tate; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Virginia and Ira Jackson; the Favrot Fund; CFP Foundation; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of John Wynne; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.