Tracie Morris: An Intimate Retrospective (In conversation with Matthew Shenoda)
Tuesday, September 24th, 5:00 PM
FILM | PANEL
An intimate exploration of Tracie Morris’ diverse creative work, including film screenings and live poetry, as part of her Visiting Professor of the Practice role at Brown.
Tracie Morris: An Intimate Retrospective (In conversation with Matthew Shenoda)
Tuesday, September 24th, 5:00 PM
FILM | PANEL
An intimate exploration of Tracie Morris’ diverse creative work, including film screenings and live poetry, as part of her Visiting Professor of the Practice role at Brown.
About
Date: Tuesday, September 24th, 5:00 PM
Location: Englander Studio, N420, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts
From the first time Tracie Morris presented her poetry in 1991 to her most recent poetic films, Tracie’s creative work has run the gamut: She is an award-winning paged-based and sound-based poet, filmmaker, vocalist, performance artist, and scholar. This event will be an intimate survey of her work and includes an artist’s talk, film screenings, live poetry and a discussion with Matthew Shenoda, Professor and Chair of the Department of Literary Arts and affiliated faculty in Africana Studies and the Brown Arts Institute at Brown University.
This presentation will be an abbreviated survey of her work in several genres including her scholarship, written poetry and essays, sound poetry and two experimental poetic short films. Her second film, Black Sprang, is making its international debut at this event.
While considered “avant-garde” in her work, she is also an established presence in the art and academic fields. Her artistic awards include the Guggenheim fellowship, Creative Capital grant, and residencies at the MacDowell, Yaddo and Millay colonies. Her work has been presented in museums esteemed cultural spaces around the world including the Whitney Biennial, Centre Pompidou and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
She is a Professor of Poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has written/edited 11 books. This presentation is her public event as Visiting Professor of the Practice at the Brown Arts Institute.
This event is part of Morris’ Visiting Professor of Practice appointment at the Brown Arts Institute.
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Join The Film Screening with Dr. Tracie Morris and Matthew Shenoda
Tracie Morris (MFA, Poetry, Hunter College, CUNY, PhD, Performance Studies, NYU) Dr. Morris was the inaugural Distinguished Visiting Professor of Poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop before joining the Workshop as its first African-American tenured Professor of Poetry. She is currently a Visiting Professor of Practice at Brown University. Tracie has presented innovative poetry, performance art and theory in over 30 countries and is the author/editor of 10 books and is included in dozens of anthologies. She has also recorded extensively as a vocalist, poet and experimental performance artist. University creative fellowships include the Woodberry Poetry Room (Creative Fellow, Harvard University), Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (Writing Fellow, University of Pennsylvania). She is a 2021 Guggenheim Poetry Fellow. Tracie is a Cave Canem alumna and designated a Master Artist of the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her installations and performances have been presented by the Whitney Biennial, Dia:Chelsea, The New Museum, The Kitchen Performance Space, Albertine, Furious Flower, Victoria and Albert Museum, Centre Pompidou, among others. She has collaborated with many artists in music, dance, performance art, theater and creative writing. Her debut poetic short film, Black Spring, was commissioned by the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies and the Department of Cinematic Arts of the University of Iowa. Her live directing and sound design debut, Black Panther Remix: Wakanda Now, debuted in 2022. Black Sprang, is her second experimental short film.
Courtesy of the artistMatthew Shenoda
Matthew Shenoda is the author of the poetry collections Somewhere Else, Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone, Tahrir Suite, and The Way of the Earth and co-editor of Bearden’s Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Literary Arts and affiliated faculty in Africana Studies and the Brown Arts Institute at Brown University. Additionally, Shenoda is a founding editor of the African Poetry Book Fund.
