Events

Gallery Talk - Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Black Space-Making from Harlem to the Hudson Valley

Location:

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Harrison Brisbon-McKinnon, Vassar Class of 2026 and 2024 Ford Scholar/Pindyck Summer Fellow at the Loeb, discusses their current Spotlight exhibition, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Black Space-Making from Harlem to the Hudson Valley. The exhibition, organized in conjunction with Great Green Hope for the Urban Blues, complicates the myth of the Hudson Valley as a utopia, asking "Utopia for who?" The works within share the stories of people resisting White settlers’ attempts to craft the myth of the great green hope.

Vassar student Harrison Brisbon-McKinnon stands in front of their Loeb exhibition with a photo and painting seen behind them.
Harrison Brisbon-McKinnon stands within their exhibition. Photo by Destiny Kearney