09 Feb Introducing ADRSA 2024 Featured Artist Madjeen Isaac
The ADRSA is pleased to announce Madjeen Isaac as the Featured Artist for our 2024 Conference, “The Power of Place: Home, ‘Foreign,’ and Belonging in Africana Religions” to be held at the City University of New York on April 19, 2024. Madjeen Isaac is a first generation Haitian-American artist whose practice is rooted in home, communality and belonging. Isaac reimagines and hybridizes landscapes to center boundless Black and immigrant existences that depict joy, leisure, and liberation, ultimately challenging the constraints of reality. She is heavily influenced by her upbringing in Brooklyn, surrounded by Caribbean culture, and especially informed by her observations that both are strongly family- and community-centered.
Sister Madjeen received a BFA degree in Fine Art from the Fashion Institute of Technology and an MA in Art + Edu & Community Practice from New York University, and is currently an artist in residence at Smack Mellon. She has won numerous awards and had residencies/fellowships including BRIClab: Contemporary Artist Residency Program, the Laundromat Project Fellowship and Lakou NOU Artist Residency Program at Haiti Cultural Exchange. She has exhibited at Swivel Gallery, Jenkins Johnson Projects Gallery, The Frost Art Museum, The Art and Design Gallery at FIT among others. Isaac is also currently a part of the Lakay se Lakay initiative being launched by the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), who are serving as co-sponsors of ADRSA 2024.
Read more about her and see more of her work here.
Submissions for presentation at ADRSA 2024 are being accepted through March 1. Find out more about this year’s theme and submit a proposal here.
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