Detroit native Dream Hampton (stylized as dream hampton) recently joined the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit’s (MOCAD) board of directors.
The award-winning filmmaker and writer, is the latest appointee to the museum’s board, further heightening a commitment to social responsibility.
MOCAD also recently appointed board member Dr. Charles Boyd to the executive committee and named
former board member Laura Hughes (which the Michigan Chronicle previously reported on here) as its interim executive director.
“I am thrilled to welcome dream to our MOCAD board. Given dream’s creativity and intuition, I
expect she will bring a fresh and important voice to our discussions and decision-making. As a
native Detroiter, dream understands what it is like to be an artist in and from our city,”
said MOCAD Board Chair Elyse Foltyn.
hampton was one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2019, according to a press release, and she holds a deep awareness of the contemporary art world and an even deeper experience as a
member of the community. Her most recent film, Surviving R. Kelly, earned her a Peabody Award
and an Emmy nomination.
Her work covers social and political topics including gender and sexual abuse, the criminal justice system, the war on drugs, and justice for the transgender community, with films centering the stories of icons like Stacey Abrams, Muhammed Ali and Christopher Wallace—The Notorious B.I.G.
“Museums have always been spaces that I’ve returned to for inspiration,” said hampton. “I’ve had really transcendent and emotional experiences in contemporary art spaces like MOCAD. The fact that I can be a part of a place that brings young people that similar experience, here in Detroit, is what truly excites me.”
hampton’s board appointment is one of a number of changes that MOCAD has made as their commitment to being a part of social transformation and inclusion.
“There are things I’m still learning, and I expect to continue to be inspired by the young people and artists leading many of the important conversations right now,” says hampton. “Detroit is a working-class city, and the majority
of artists here are working class. So I expect Detroit to leverage the conversations we’ve already
begun to bring power to the community and the history we have to build on.”
Also new at the museum is a creative cross-media collaboration that focuses on Detroit’s history and present in a new MOCAD exhibition. 40 local artists, diverse in their practices but united in their engagement with Detroit, exhibit new collaborative work in an expansive group show. Dual Vision is a 40-person group show highlighting artists living in or otherwise very engaged with Detroit.
On view from February 5 – August 8, Dual Vision is formatted as a series of visual collaborations: 20 individual projects produced in pairs, creating a forum for conversations between practitioners. The exhibition features a robust intersection of disciplines and practices—from painting and sculpture to sound, fiber, and lens-based media—with contributions by artists at varying stages of their careers. Varied in their media and formal approaches, these
works craft a collective message united around creatively responding to the city that MOCAD
calls home.
Dual Vision is organized by MOCAD and curated by Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator Jova Lynne, with curatorial support from MOCAD Curatorial Fellow Maceo Keeling, and advised by participating artists Kathryn Brackett Luchs, Ed Fraga, and Robert Sestok.
A public roundtable will take place at 2 p.m. on Saturday, February 20, to discuss the creation of Dual Vision.
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