Join the Johnson Museum of Art and Nigerian-American poet, sculptor, and avant-garde chef Precious Okoyomon for a participatory artist’s talk exploring themes of migration, dispossession, and redress. Okoyomon’s large-scale, immersive artworks are especially concerned with the entangled fate of humans, plants, and animal species as they move from place to place across the planet. Approaching art-making like a poet, Okoyomon mines the metaphorical associations of all manner of found objects and raw materials – from kudzu vine to lambswool – to elicit new reflections upon our complicated histories. Okoyomon was born in England in 1993; raised in Nigeria and the U.S.; and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Okoyomon’s artist’s talk is the second in a series with the campus-wide
Migrations Global Grand Challenge, part of Global Cornell, with support from the
Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative.
