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Our Speakers
Lynore Routte
Lynore Routté is a multidisciplinary artist who has been creating visual and wearable art since childhood. Her love for adornment has inspired her to create one-of-a-kind jewelry, clothing, and embellished vessels. Lynore’s passion for zero-waste living has driven her to find sustainable ways to craft her work. Her pieces have been seen in museums, galleries, magazines, and music videos and worn on performance stages and fashion runways. Most recently, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture acquired two of Lynore’s pieces, which will be displayed at the New York Public Library’s main branch this fall. In 2023 she collaborated with artist Sanford Biggers and MASK consortium on the re:mancipation project for the Chazen Museum of Art.
Lenore will be speaking on Monday, July 29 with her son, Arjuna Routte-Prieur for "A Student of Art"
Arjuna Routte-Prieur
Arjuna Routte-Prieur was born and raised in Staten Island, New York, and currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland. Working primarily in oils, gauche, watercolors, and pencil, Arjunahas also used collage, sculpture, and video to bring landscapes, people, and characters to life. He mixes traditional realism, cartoonish flourishes, and personal references into moody and intriguing atmospheres. The depictions of the comfort found in urban landscapes, exaggerated posturing and movement of hooded characters, and the lovingly regal feel of his portraits have garnered him a supportive fan base.Arjuna’s work has been shown in solo and group shows in London, Los Angeles, and all around New York. His work has appeared on album covers, magazines, and a limited edition zine printed and issued by Innen Books.
Arjuna will be speaking on Monday, July 29 with his mother, Lynore Routte for "A Student of Art"
Devin Allen
Devin Allen is a self-taught artist who gained national attention when his photograph of the Baltimore Uprising was published on the cover of TIME in May 2015. A native of Baltimore, Devin achieved a rare feat as only the third amateur photographer TIME selected to feature on its cover. In 2017, he was named the first fellow of the Gordon Parks Foundation Fellowship and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award as a debut author for his book, A Beautiful Ghetto (Haymarket Books). Devin’s powerful imagery of Black life has been featured in New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Aperture. His photography is also featured in permanent collections at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, the Jule Collins Smith Museum, and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Devin will be speaking on Tuesday, July 30 with his longtime friend, D Watkins for "A Student of Photography"
D. Watkins
D. Watkins is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Beast Side, The Cook Up, Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised, and We Speak for Ourselves—which was Enoch Pratt Free Library’s 2020 One Book Baltimore selection. His newest book, Black Boy Smile, was released in May. Watkins is Editor-at-Large for Salon. He is a writer on the HBO mini-series We Own This City and hosts the show’s companion podcast. Additionally, he was featured in the HBO documentary, The Slow Hustle. His work has been published in the New York Times, Esquire, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, and other publications.
D will be speaking on Tuesday, July 30 with his longtime friend, Devin Allen for "A Student of Photography"
Carpet Company
Carpet Company is a Baltimore-based indie skateboard and apparel manufacturer that is a labor of love for brothers Ayman and Osama Abdeldayem. Every item the duo produces conveys their dedication and love of craft, from skate decks to tees, books, and even baseball bats. This magic is felt in their own line and when they collaborate with brands like Nike SB and organizations like the Baltimore Orioles. Carpet Company has been featured in GQ Middle East, Hypebeast, Complex, and The Fader.
Brothers Ayman and Osama will be speaking to one another on Wednesday, July 31 for "A Student of Fashion"
Nu Goteh
Nu Goteh is a Liberian-born refugee, designer, strategist, creative director, and social practitioner now residing in Los Angeles. His singular and multifaceted resume combines 12+ years of brand experience across industries with a Masters Degree in strategic design and management focused on solving human-centered problems. Nu is currently co-founder & creative director of the strategy and design studio Room for Magic, and its partner publication Deem.
Nu will be speaking to to artist, author, and curator Teri Henderson on Thursday, August 1 for "A Student of Design"
Teri Henderson
Teri Henderson is a Baltimore-based independent curator, the Arts and Culture Editor of Baltimore Beat, and the author of Black Collagists: The Book and the curator of the digital archive, Black Collagists. Henderson holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Texas Christian University. She formerly held a curatorial internship at Ghost Gallery in Seattle, Washington. Henderson previously served as the Art Law Clinic Director for Maryland Volunteer Lawyers For The Arts and is currently on their Board of Directors. Her written work has been seen in: BmoreArt, All SHE Makes, Artforum, Justsmile Magazine, Kinfolk Travel, and the St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture.
Teri will be speaking to co-founder of Deem Journal and designer, Nu Goteh on Thursday, August 1 for "A Student of Design"
Bradford Young
Bradford Young is an Oscar-nominated cinematographer and a three-time Sundance winner as the cinematographer of Andrew Dosunmu’s Mother of George (2013), David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013), and Dee Rees’s Pariah (2011). Young has also provided cinematography for Untitled (Structures) (2012) in collaboration with installation artist Leslie Hewitt, and created multi-channel installations Bynum Cutler (2014) and REkOGNIZE (2017). In 2016, Young directed two long-form music videos for Common’s 11th studio album— the award-winning “Black America Again,” and “Letter to the Free,” which is featured in Ava DuVernay’s The 13th (2016). Studying at Howard University under Haile Gerima, the acclaimed director of both experimental and militant films such as Bush Mama (1975), Ashes and Embers (1982), and Sankofa (1993), Young is a critical contemporary voice in a lineage of artists and filmmakers such as Ernest Dickerson, Arthur Jafa, and Malik Sayeed, who are similarly invested in producing if not a black aesthetics, at least what Young calls a “black intentionality,” i.e. an image-making practice that is always explicit about coming from, expressing, and leading back to blackness.
Bradford will be speaking to his teacher and mentor, filmmaker Haile Gerima on Friday, August 2 for "A Student of Cinema"
Haile Gerima
Haile Gerima arrived in the United States from his native Gondar, Ethiopia, to study acting and directing at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, Illinois. He later transferred to the Theater Department at UCLA where he completed the Master's Program in Film. Afterward, he relocated to Washington, DC, to teach at Howard University's Department of Radio, Television, and Film where he has influenced young filmmakers for over twenty-five years. Gerima's unique filmmaking aesthetic is coupled with a personal mission to correct long-held misconceptions about Black peoples' varied histories throughout the world; for this reason, he is considered--by colleagues and students alike--to be a master teacher in the classroom and behind the camera.