Name: Gallery Gatherings: Roscoe Hall and Tylonn Sawyer; Chinese Goddess Figures
Start: 2025-01-09T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-09T18:30:00-05:00
Location: 314 S Park St, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Michigan 49007

Gallery Gatherings: Roscoe Hall and Tylonn Sawyer; Chinese Goddess Figures

We are combining January's Gallery Gathering with a rescheduled one from December!
First from 5:30–6pm, we will delve into questions of American life and identity with a discussion of Roscoe Hall’s With Great Intent to Leave It All For You and Tylonn Sawyer’s American Woman: Columbia. These pieces are paired together in Legendary Voices: Art for the Next Century for their shared focus on contemporary African American experiences.
Next, from 6–6:30pm, we will gather in the Joy Light Gallery to observe a trio of figures representing Bixia Yuanjun and Guanyin. Sometimes conflated with one another, these two Chinese goddesses are both associated with compassion, protection, and fertility. They differ, however, in their stories of origin and the ways in which they have historically been depicted in art. Together, we will examine renderings of these goddesses in bronze, porcelain, and jade.