Ask an Artist about Moral Courage, with Maria de Los Angeles and Kameelah Rasheed

Come hear New York based artists Kameelah Rasheed and Maria de Los Angeles speak about their work and experiences. Each makes art that engages politically and socially with some of the most topical and complex issues of our time including migration/immigration and state violence against black communities. Rasheed’s work explores seclective legibility and opaqueness as a political strategy; the tension between narrative contingencies and narrative resolutions; as well as black traditions of covert literacies and self-publishing. de Los Angeles’s subject is both from personal experience and from the larger political conversations surrounding migration. She creates work which references the human experience of moving from one space to another.

Maria de Los Angeles was born in 1988 in Michoacán, Mexico and immigrated to Santa Rosa California in 2000 with her family. De Los Angeles’s subject is both from personal experience and from the larger political conversations surrounding migration. She  creates work which references the human experience of moving from one space to another. She is currently an artist in residence in El Museo del Barrio in New York.


Kameelah Janan Rasheed
is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, former high school public school teacher, and writer working in installation, photography, printmaking, publications, and performance. Her work explores selective legibility and opaqueness as a political strategy; the tension between narrative contingencies and narrative resolutions; as well as black traditions of covert literacies and self-publishing. In addition to her full-time work as a social studies curriculum developer for New York public schools, she is currently an artist-in-residence at Smack Mellon and on the faculty in the MFA Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts.

Lawrence 231, 2-3:15 pm

Claiming Williams events are intended for the campus community. See the CW website for a full schedule of the day’s events.