349: Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy on increasing the visibility of artists of color

Today on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an
interview with Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy. She is a curator and
writer focusing on the intersection of craft and contemporary
art, with a particular interest in increasing the visibility of
artists of color. She is currently the Assistant Curator at the
Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York, where she has helped
organize over twenty exhibitions, while also managing MAD’s Burke
Prize for contemporary art.


In our interview we talk about her curatorial fellowship at the
Center for Craft and the accompanying exhibition Sleight of Hand.
The exhibition brings together six contemporary artists using
clay who create humorous, quirky, or anthropomorphized objects in
clay, centered around complex issues of race, gender, and
immigration status, among other pressing social and political
realities of our day. The exhibition is on display in
Asheville, NC now until January 22, 2021 and features Diana
Yesenia Alvarado, Natalia Arbelaez, Salvador Jiménez-Flores,
Yvette Mayorga, Woody De Othello, and Maryam Yousif. For more
information visit www.angelikvizcarrondo.com or
www.centerforcraft.org/exhibition/sleight-of-hand.