Amanda Williams

Amanda Williams was selected as a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. Each year the MacArthur Foundation awards fellowships—better known as “genius” grants—to individuals from diverse fields who are solving long-standing scientific and mathematical problems, pushing art forms into new and emerging territories, and addressing the urgent needs of under-resourced communities. Williams was recognized for reimagining public space to expose the complex ways that value, both cultural and economic, intersects with race in the built environment. Her works visualize how zoning, development, and disinvestment impact the lives of everyday residents, particularly in Black urban communities.

Saturday, October 22, 2022, 12pm
Northwestern University, Chicago
www.chicagohumanities.org

As part of this year’s Chicago Humanities Festival, Rick Lowe and Amanda Williams—who were named MacArthur Fellows in 2014 and 2022, respectively—will reflect on community-based creative practices and the power of art to remake our public lives. The Chicago Humanities Festival connects people to the ideas that shape and define us and promotes the lifelong exploration of what it means to be human.

Purchase Tickets

Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 1pm EDT

As part of the Brooklyn Rail’s online series New Social Environment, Amanda Williams joins the journal’s contributor Zoë Hopkins and director of programs Chloe Stagaman for a conversation about the artist’s current exhibition, CANDYLADYBLACK,  at Gagosian, Park & 75, New York, as well as her practice in general. In these daily lunchtime Zoom conversations, invited artists, writers, filmmakers, and poets discuss creative life in the context of our new social reality with Brooklyn Rail staff. The talk will conclude with a poetry reading by Nikki Wallschlaeger. To join the online event, register at brooklynrail.org.