Theaster Gates Instagram – Today, June 25th, would have marked Tamir Rice’s 22nd birthday. Since 2017, @theastergates and Rebuild Foundation have been the humble stewards of the gazebo near which 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann.
In close partnership with Samaria Rice, Tamir’s mother, Rebuild has traveled and reconstructed the gazebo on the lawn of the Stony Island Arts Bank, creating a material memorial that serves as a gathering space and call for justice for all of the racialized bodies who experience violence at the hands of our police departments. Since 2017, we’ve had a number of artists and scholars – including Yaw Agyeman, avery r. young, Angel Bat Dawid, and Adam Green – respond to this object of care. We are honored to continue this work with our June 30th program.
Please join us at the Arts Bank on June 30th as we invite our local community of artists, writers, musicians, and scholars to participate in a gathering in honor of Tamir. We are honored to make space for you to share your recent creative and intellectual work related to themes of social injustice or state-sanctioned violence and celebrate the cultural producers who are highlighting these critical issues through their work.
We ask that you please consider supporting the work that Samaria Rice is actively engaged in as she carries forth in his name and legacy through the Tamir Rice Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. To make a contribution and learn more about the foundation’s work, please visit @tamirricefoundation | Posted on 25/Jun/2024 22:34:33
