Men's Wellness Fellowship x De Young Museum Kehinde Wiley: “An Archaeology of Silence”

Tuesday, October 3rd , 2023 • 5pm-8pm PST

We invite you to a Special Community Fellowship Experience Specifically for “People Of Color” at the de Young Museum. We're transporting our attendees to and from the de Young Museum via Charter Bus from the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, Downtown Oakland. Doors Open at 4:00 pm.

Bus Pick-Up Location | Dr. Huey P Newton Foundation 1427 Broadway Oakland CA 94612

Bus Pick-Up Time | 4:30 - 4:45 pm - Departs at 5:00 pm

RSVP REQUIRED - Reservations are limited. Please make sure you can attend this event if you RSVP - Thank you

Event Time | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Event Location: de Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, San Francisco, CA 94118

AGENDA:

4:30 - 4:45 pm | Bus arrives across from Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation in front of Oaklandish.

5:00 pm | Bus departs from Oaklandish

6:00 pm | Guests arrive at the de Young Museum

6:00 - 6:45 pm | Catering: Tastebuds (From a Black owned restaurant in the neighborhood)

6:45 - 7:15 pm | Guided Tour w/ Abram Jackson - Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology

7:20 - 7:50 pm | Reflection facilitated by Christian Walker and Karega Bailey

7:50 - 8:00 pm | Transition to daparting Bus

8:00 pm | Bus departs de Young Museum

Description of the exhibition:

American artist Kehinde Wiley’s new body of paintings and sculptures confronts the silence surrounding systemic violence against Black people through the visual language of the fallen figure. Wiley investigates the iconography of death and sacrifice in Western art, tracing it across religious, mythological, and historical subjects. In An Archaeology of Silence, the senseless deaths of men and women around the world are transformed into a powerful elegy of resistance. The resulting paintings of Black people struck down, wounded, or dead, referencing iconic paintings of mythical heroes, martyrs, and saints, offer a haunting meditation on the legacies of colonialism and systemic racism.