Alumni
Baxter St at CCNY has long been a catalyst for innovative creation within the artistic mediums of photography and video practices. Ranging from exhibitions, residency programs, and partnerships, our core mission is to support and activate a vibrant community deeply engaged in the art of lens-based contemporary practices. Take a look at the wide breadth of alumni that are a part of our wonderful and ever-expanding community.
ARTISTS
Felicita Felli Maynard
Guest Curatorial Program (2020)
ARTISTS
Felicita Felli Maynard
Guest Curatorial Program (2020)
Felicita Felli Maynard is a multidimensional artist, educator, and community archivist based in New Orleans. Maynard works across photography, sculpture, sound, and installation. Their work explores the rituals and practices of survival and prosperity among descendants of the African Diaspora. They create work based in the imagination and ingenuity of the landscapes and identities that queer and trans descendants of the African Diaspora inhabit, shift, and remap. Maynard earned an MFA in Photography from Tulane University and a BFA in Photography from CUNY Brooklyn College. Maynard has participated in numerous residencies and fellowships, including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, the Center for Photography in Woodstock, and the Joan Mitchell Center.
Por Los Ojos De Mi Gente (Through the eyes of my tribe) is a group exhibition that presents recent works by POC and Queer identifying lens-based artists. The exhibition is inspired by the pioneering transgender activists: Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera and the legacies they left behind. Ms. Johnson and Ms. Rivera worked tirelessly to foster safe spaces for LGBTQ youth in New York City and those impacted by H.I.V/AIDS. They were vital figures in the Stonewall uprising that took place on June 28th, 1969 but their contributions to the uprising and the civil rights revolution that soon followed, are often left out of every Pride narrative. In recent years, a petition began to recognize their contributions to the movement but their exclusion from pride narratives unearthed deeper rooted issues within the LGBTQ community. Reacting to inequity in contemporary visual representations of people of color within the LGBTQ spectrum, the participating artists in this exhibition draw from their respective personal experiences and histories to create a multi-narrative account of the complexities surrounding Queer identity in America.
Participating Artists: Alanna Fields, Alexis-Ruiseco Lombera, Antonio Pulgarin, Derick Whitson, Felicita “Felli” Maynard, and Golden
