We are delighted to announce the development of a new visual arts organization in the DC metro area.
artconnexDC is a collective of diverse women-identifying and non-binary visual arts professionals. We are dedicated to fostering kinship and enhancing the vibrant DC metro arts ecosystem. artconnexDC offers a network to share information, encourage dialogue, and provide multigenerational opportunities for collaboration and mentorship.
Artist Talk and Viewing of Break Water, a new public art installation by Nekisha Durrett
Saturday, April 5th, 10 am
Waterfront Park, Alexandria, Virginia
1A Prince St, Alexandria, VA 22314
Join artconnexDC for a special artist talk and viewing of Break Water, a new public art installation by Nekisha Durrett at the Waterfront in Alexandria, VA. In addition, we will hear from Diane Ruggiero, Director of the City of Alexandria’s Office of the Arts, about their award-winning public art series, Site See. Following the talk, we will gather for coffee and conversation.
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About Nekisha Durrett
Nekisha Durrett (b. 1976 | Washington, DC) is a mixed-media artist who employs the visual language of mass media to bring forward histories that objects, places, and words embody, but are not often celebrated. Her expansive practice includes public art, social practice, installation, painting, sculpture and design. Through deep research and material investigation, she finds historical traces in the present that are filled with stories easily overlooked. Her work contemplates biases and the unreliability of memory, as information is filtered over time. Durrett illuminates individual and collective histories of Black life and imagination, addressing her own younger self and the stories she wished she had learned.
Durrett holds a BFA from The Cooper Union in New York City and an MFA from The University of Michigan School of Art and Design as a Horace H. Rackham Fellow. She is the Howard University Social Justice Consortium Fellow and was a finalist for the 2023 Janet and Walter Sondheim Art Prize. Her installation Queen City, a 35’ tall “vessel”, opened in May 2023 in Arlington, VA, paying homage to the 903 individuals displaced for the construction of the Pentagon in 1941. Durrett was awarded the commission for the ARCH Project at Bryn Mawr College in partnership with Monument Lab, where her piece Don't Forget to Remember (Me) opened in April 2024. Durrett’s public art installation, Break Water,opens in April 2025 at the Waterfront in Alexandria, VA
Rendering: Nekisha Durrett. Portrait by Farrah Skeiky.
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