Prospect and the New Orleans African American Museum welcome P.6 artists  Jeannette Ehlers, L. Kasimu Harris, and Joiri Minaya for a fireside chat with the community, facilitated by NOAAM Creative Producer Cameron-Mitchell Ware. 

This event is a rich opportunity to directly engage in conversation with these artists as they reflect on their processes and what it means to think of a harbinger as a gift.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

Joiri Minaya is a Dominican-United Statesian multidisciplinary artist whose recent works focus on destabilizing historic and contemporary representations of an imagined tropical identity. Minaya attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales, Santo Domingo in 2009, Altos de Chavón School of Design in 2011, and received a BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2013. She has participated in residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; Guttenberg Arts; Smack Mellon; the Bronx Museum’s AIM Program; the NYFA Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists; ISCP; Art Omi; Vermont Studio Center; New Wave; Silver Art Projects; Light Work; and Fountainhead. She has received awards, fellowships and grants from the US LatinX Art Forum; NYSCA / NYF; Jerome Hill; Artadia; the BRIC’s Colene Brown Art Prize; Socrates Sculpture Park; the Joan Mitchell Foundation; and the Nancy Graves Foundation, among others. Minaya’s work is in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Princeton University Art Museum, NJ; MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge, MA; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; as well as the Centro León, Santiago and Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; and the Fundación Ama Amoedo Collection in Uruguay.

L. Kasimu Harris is a New Orleans-based artist whose practice deposits a number of different strategic and conceptual devices in order to push narratives. He strives to tell stories of underrepresented communities in New Orleans and beyond. Harris earned a BBA in Entrepreneurship from Middle Tennessee State University in 2004 and an MA in Journalism from the University of Mississippi in 2008. He has shown in numerous group exhibitions across the US and internationally. His ongoing series Vanishing Black Bars & Lounges (2018–) has been featured in solo exhibitions at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA, and at the Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, LA. Harris’s writing and photographs were featured in “A Shot Before Last Call: Capturing New Orleans’s Vanishing Black Bars” in The New York Times. His work is in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, LA; The Wedge Collection, Toronto, Canada; Center of Photography at Woodstock, Kingston, NY; the NoVo Foundation, New York, NY; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN; The Do Good Fund, Columbus, GA; and Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR.

Jeannette Ehlers is a Copenhagen-based artist of Danish and Trinidadian descent whose practice takes shape experimentally across photography, video, installation, sculpture and performance. Her work often brings about decolonial hauntings and disruptions reminding us that history is not in the past. Ehlers insists on the possibility for empowerment and healing in her art, honoring legacies of resistance in the African diaspora. Ehlers graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2006. She has exhibited at international institutions including at the Momenta Biennale, Montreal, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Centre Pompidou-Metz, France; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, among others. Ehlers is the co-creator of the public sculpture project I Am Queen Mary, 2018, in Copenhagen, Denmark and was shortlisted to create a national monument to The Windrush Generation at London Waterloo Station in 2022. She is a member of The Lockward Collective who was selected to do The Decolonial Monument in Global Village Berlin, 2024.

Cameron-­Mitchell Ware, Zodzetrick in Treemonisha. is a theatre/teaching artist from New Orleans, actively creating and performing in New York City and Los Angeles. Recent New Orleans credits include: Coalhouse Walker Jr. in RAGTIME (2017 Big Easy Award Winner – Best Actor in a Musical; Cripple Creek Theatre Co.), Dudley in A Kingdom, A Chasm (Vagabond Inventions), and Jesus in Reefer Madness (Storyville Collective). Other credits include: Passing Strange (Stew) at Columbia University; numerous appearances at Midtown's 'Don't Tell Mama' Cabaret; and Off-Broadway in Deployed: A New Musical. As a teaching artist, Cameron-Mitchell has held residencies and facilitated interactions with theatre & dance for learners across the country with various arts organizations, including: The Wolftrap Arts Institute, KIDsmART, Theatre for A New Audience, Young Audiences, and The Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans. Cameron-Mitchell holds degrees in Musical Theatre and Sociology from Loyola Marymount University.