Oak Cliff Cultural Center Exhibitions and Programs October 2024

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I DON'T DREAM ABOUT THE FUTURE | MOM (Brooke Chaney)

October 5 - November 15, 2024

Reception: October 5, 6 - 8 PM | Artist Talk: November 9, 2 - 3 PM

The Oak Cliff Cultural Center is honored to present I DON'T DREAM ABOUT THE FUTURE a solo exhibition by MOM (Brooke Chaney) with a reception from 6 - 8 pm on Saturday, October 5.

MOM (Brooke Chaney) is a contemporary, multi-disciplinary artist based in Dallas, Texas, who has been actively creating since 2020. With a BFA in Fibers from the University of North Texas, Chaney draws deeply on their background in textile surface design processes, including screen printing, vector drawing, and heat transfer vinyl. This experience informs their approach to painting, where layers of flat, opaque shapes shift in color, temperature, and saturation to create punchy and surreal depictions of nature.

In I DON'T DREAM ABOUT THE FUTURE, Chaney uses vibrant colors, abstract forms, and dimensional elements to construct landscapes that evoke dreams, memories, and parallel realities-spaces where past, present, and future converge. These imagined landscapes exist as contemplative spaces, a space to pause and reflect on themes of personal narrative and the transient nature of time. Inspired by feelings of temporal displacement, I DON'T DREAM ABOUT THE FUTURE examines the relationship between linear and cyclical time, questioning how these concepts shape our perception of life and encouraging viewers to discover their own narratives within them.

As a professional artist, MOM (Brooke Chaney) has created art for numerous national brands, annually participated in local community engagement efforts, and co-founded the award-winning artist co-op and studio, TRADE Oak Cliff. Chaney's work has been featured throughout DFW including in the 2024 AURORA Art Quest, the Creative Arts Center, 500X Gallery, and Pencil on Paper Gallery. Chaney's mural is currently on view in Meow Wolf's latest immersive art experience The Real Unreal in Grapevine, TX.

The artist will present a gallery talk on November 9, 2024 from 2:00 - 3:00 PM in the OC3 Gallery at Oak Cliff Cultural Center.

For more information about the artist, please visit their website. madexmom.com

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

Cultural Practices of Honoring Ancestors

IG Live Virtual Event featuring

Tashima Thomas and Candice D' Meza

Wednesday, October 23, 2024, at 12 noon CST via Instagram Live @oakcliffculturalcenter

Join us Wednesday, October 23, 2024, at 12 noon CST via Instagram Live for conversation between Tashima Thomas @lapapayarose and Candice D' Meza @candicedmeza about cultural practices of honoring ancestors especially highlighted during October/November and intersections with Halloween.

October is a significant time for many spiritual tradition, and Hoodoo Heritage Month, founded by Mama Rue @mamaruehh and the Walking the Dikenga Collective in 2019, highlights the importance of honoring Hoodoo's rich legacy. Hoodoo, a deeply rooted spiritual practice born from the resilience and magico-religious traditions of formerly enslaved African Americans, has often been misrepresented. This month-long observance resists these misrepresentations while celebrating the culture, wisdom, and power of ancestral practice.

In close proximity, October 31st marks All Hallows' Eve (Halloween), a day associated with honoring the dead and spiritual transitions. Following this, early November brings a convergence of remembrance days, including:

• All Saints' Day (November 1st), observed by many Christian traditions to honor all saints.
• All Souls' Day (November 2nd), focusing on the souls of the departed).
• Dia de los Muertos (Mexico, November 1st-2nd), a vibrant celebration of life and death where families remember their loved ones with altars, offerings, and communal rituals.
• Fet Gede (Haiti), celebrated in early November, a Vodou festival where spirits of the dead (Gede) are honored through ceremonies, offerings, and celebrations.

These observances, despite cultural differences, share a reverence for ancestors and the spiritual world. Hoodoo Heritage Month, in particular, plays a key role in reclaiming the narrative around African American spiritual practices and their ancestral roots.

Tashima Thomas is an art historian, gastronome, curator, and cultural critic. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Art History at Southern Methodist University specializing in the art of the African Diaspora. She received her PhD in Art History from Rutgers University and focuses on food pathways, visual and material culture, racial formation, Afro-Gothic as an aesthetic and theoretical framework, and the environmental humanities. Her book manuscript Edible Extravagance: The Visual Art of Consumption in the Black Atlantic is under contract with SUNY Press, The Afro-Latinx Futures Series. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, exhibition catalogues, and edited volumes.

Candice D' Meza is an African American-Haitian Queer Mother of three and Spiritist whose artistic body of work spans across theatre, performance, literary genres, activism, dance, critical pedagogy, ritual, social practice, documentary, experimental, and short film. She uses the textures of grief, the world building of science fiction, afro-futurism, and fantasy, with the spiritual technologies of African and Diasporic African cosmologies. Her work has been featured, published, performed, screened, and archived at institutions across the nation.

ONGOING PROGRAMS

SWAN STRINGS AT OC3

THURSDAYS AT 6:30 PM & SATURDAYS AT 11:00 AM 2024

Swan Strings Music Program is a 501c3 non-profit organization with a mission to provide free music education, community concerts and sound therapy services to North Texan individuals without access.

Questions? Contact Swan Strings at [email protected]

UPCOMING EVENTS

Oak Cliff Cultural Center

223 W. Jefferson Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75208

Hours:

Tuesday - Saturday

12:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Phone: 214-670-3777

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