Lecture | Tricia Hersey from Nap Ministry
Tricia Hersey
Tricia Hersey
Kehinde Wiley, The Death of Hyacinth (Ndey Buri Mboup), 2022, oil on canvas, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Templon. © 2022 Kehinde Wiley
March 9, 2024
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Engage in an enlightening lecture with Tricia Hersey, founder of the Nap Ministry, as she shares her interpretation of the exhibition Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence. Hersey’s work, seeded within the soils of Black radical thought and Black liberation theology, serves as a guide for how to collectively decolonize and unravel ourselves from the impact of capitalism and White supremacy.
Plan Your Visit
- This program is free with Museum admission and your ticket.
- The lecture takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater on the lower level of the Law Building. The exhibition is located on the street level of the Beck Building.
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About the Speaker
Tricia Hersey is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, theologian, and community organizer. She holds a bachelor of science in public health from Eastern Illinois University and a master of divinity from Emory University, and she was the 2023 artist/scholar in residence at the Center for Black Visual Culture at New York University. Hersey is the author of Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto and The Nap Ministry’s Rest Deck: 50 Practices to Resist Grind Culture.
The Ruth K. Shartle Lecture Series is made possible by a generous grant from The Brown Foundation, Inc.
Learning and Interpretation programs receive generous funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services; Samuel H. Kress Foundation; The Brown Foundation, Inc.; Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; Houston Junior Woman's Club; Sharon G. Dies; Sterling-Turner Foundation; Susan Vaughan Foundation; and additional generous donors.
“Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence” was organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Major support provided by: