Picturing a Place with Rosten Woo and Courtney Adair Johnson

Picturing a Place will consider how one represents a neighborhood. In recent years, artists have incorporated research tools from social science and urban planning into their work, such as oral history and community asset mapping. Asset mapping starts with the assumption that there are many resources, internal and inherent within a community, that need to be understood before embarking on projects in those contexts.

During this discussion, Rosten Woo and Courtney Adair Johnson will each share their individual portfolios and reflect on how they have both incorporated and adapted these research tools into their work with Artist-Led Asset Mapping. Adair Johnson will discuss Mapping McGruder, a recent project from Nashville, and Woo will discuss Willowbrook is. . . / es, a book he published about a Los Angeles neighborhood. They will be joined by local artist-organizer Dave Kyu, who recently completed People: Power: Place: A Cultural Plan for Chinatown North/Callowhill North with Asian Arts Initiative.

This iteration of Conversations@Moore is sponsored and presented in partnership with Mural Arts Philadelphia’s muraLAB program. Conversations@Moore is organized by Moore’s Graduate Studies programs in Socially Engaged Art.