Alayo Akinkugbe in conversation with Raina Lampkins-Fielder
Tate Modern, London
13 December 2022
Mary Lee Bendolph, Basket Weave, c. 1990, cotton, polyester and corduroy, 213.4 x 190.5 cm (84 x 75 in). Courtesy: Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Alison Jacques, London © Mary Lee Bendolph / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London
Art historian Alayo Akinkugbe, founder of the Instagram account: @ABlackHistoryOfArt, which highlights overlooked black artists, sitters, curators and thinkers, and Raina Lampkins-Fielder, curator of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, will discuss the different ways that artists have demonstrated how textiles can hold memories and histories in relation to a new display ‘Inherited Threads’ at Tate Modern, London.