Artist In Residence | It Can Happen…Still Time to Try Closing Reception

Join us in the Gallery to close It Can Happen … Still Time to Try, Curry J. Hackett’s exhibition in collaboration with J.T. Roane  and Jona Alexander.

The evening will feature a conversation with Curry, J.T., and Jona, moderated by LinYee Yuan, exploring the ideas, histories, and creative processes behind the exhibition, alongside a special performance by TheRedProjectNYC and DJ set by MUENFUA.

About The Artist

Curry J. Hackett is a multimedia artist and educator whose work explores Black relationships to land, media, and memory. A native of Farmville, Virginia, his practice speculates on the histories, and ecologies of the American South. His work has been featured in the “Making Home” Smithsonian Design Triennial, and will be featured in the 2026 Sharjah Architecture Triennial. Currently based in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Curry serves as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU Steinhardt, and was named a 2026 United States Artist fellow.

J.T. Roane is from Tappahannock, Virginia and lives in Philadelphia. He is an African Studies scholar and Geographer at Rutgers University, where he co-leads the Black Ecologies Lab. His award-winning book Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (2023) maps relationships between Black rural and urban placemaking tactics in the American South and Philadelphia.

Jona Alexander is a Philadelphia-based Black geographer, documentarian, and educator working across film, poetry, and soundscape. As lead documentarian for the Black Ecologies Lab at Rutgers University, and the Black Geographers on Film project, Jona’s films incorporate environmental science, oral history, and urban studies to reveal the ecological consequences of slavery’s afterlives, and how they shape Afro-diasporic communities.

On view August 6 – October 31, 2026