Yara Shahidi Instagram – PAINT ME A ROAD OUT OF HERE opens this Friday, February 7. From filmmaker Catherine Gund & exec. producers @yarashahidi and Keri Shahidi, a powerful snapshot of the movement against the mass incarceration of Black women via the tenacious fight against Kafkaesque bureaucracy to liberate Faith Ringgold’s 1971 painting “For the Women’s House” from Rikers Island.
“A poignant protest… [that] navigates the trail-blazing nature of Ringgold’s career and how [Mary Enoch Elizabeth] Baxter, the younger artist, followed in Ringgold’s footsteps as a practitioner of Black radical art.” – Akané Okoshi, The Brooklyn Rail
Gund and Baxter will appear alongside special guests for Q&As after select screenings, co-presented by @newmuseum and @womenscja on Fri, 2/7, @centerforartandadvocacy on Sat, 2/8, and @verainstitute & Silver Art Projects on Thu, 2/13.
Event info and tickets now available at filmforum.org. | Posted on 03/Feb/2025 02:40:00
