April 13 - May 11, 2024
From Prizer Arts & Letters:
“Freedom House is a multimedia installation that includes poems, film, furniture, and collages that simulate what freedom — embodied in everyone’s most delicate and personal place — looks and feels like. The poems in this exhibit are from KB Brookins’ book of the same name, Freedom House. Brookins states, “While writing the Freedom House book, it was helpful for me to give large words like ‘freedom’, ‘abolition’, and ‘defund the police’ — all things I believe in — a visual form. In this way, I’m showing you my process. I’m also bucking up against the often-ired question asked of revolutionaries: ‘what does that look like?’ For me, it looks like this. A home is a mind well-lived in. Art is one of the many tools we need in order to create a truly free world. So take a walk through this iteration of Freedom House. It’s meant to be lived and loved in by you.” Join us for a reception with the artist on Saturday, April 13th from 6pm to 9pm.
About the artist: KB Brookins is a Black, queer, and trans writer, cultural worker, and installation artist from Texas. Their writing is featured in Poets.org, HuffPost, Teen Vogue, Poetry Society of America, Oxford American, and elsewhere. KB’s chapbook How To Identify Yourself with a Wound won the Saguaro Poetry Prize, a Writer’s League of Texas Discovery Prize, and an ALA Stonewall Honor Book Award. Their debut full-length poetry collection Freedom House was called “urgent and timely” by Vogue; named a Best Book of 2023 by Autostraddle, Texas Observer, Chicago Review of Books, and The Poetry Question; and won the ALA Barbara Gittings Literature Award for Poetry. KB’s debut memoir Pretty (Alfred A. Knopf) releases on May 28, 2024.”
Reception: April 13, 2024 | 6–9 pm
2023 E Cesar Chavez St.
Austin, 78702 Texas
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