Dignified Vulnerability: Art Talk with Jazlyne Sabree, AACC Founders Fellow

Join us for an intimate evening with Jazlyne Sabree, AACC Founders' Fellow, as she leads us through her evocative exploration of dignity and vulnerability, oppression and safety, within the African American experience. Through her use of candid photographs of the African diasporic community, animal hides, acrylic paint, and an array of found materials, her work seeks justice and healing by addressing the enduring harms inflicted on society’s most vulnerable groups, and offers a vision for collective restoration.

This talk is held in conjunction with the exhibition, Dignified Vulnerability: Jazlyne Sabree AACC Founders' Fellow Exhibition, on view from February 8 through March 23.

^{Jazlyne Sabree recently graduated with her MA in Fine Art from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (PAFA). She also holds an MA in Art Education from Boston University and a BA in Art from Clark Atlanta University. She’s shown at the Newark Museum of Art as well as in New York City and Philadelphia, and internationally at Fabbrica in Gambettola, Italy. Her work is in the collection of the Waldemar Belisario Museum in Sao Paolo, Brazil.}

^{About the African American Cultural Committee (AACC) and the AACC Founders Fellowship:
The Montclair Art Museum (MAM) and the African American Cultural Committee (AACC), founded in the 1980s with the mission to sustain and maintain the legacy of artists of the African Diaspora, have created the AACC Founders Fellowship in honor of the founding members of the AACC. The Fellowship is designed to offer an individual candidate at the beginning of their career in the visual arts the opportunity to expand their practice, learn about working broadly with a leading museum of American Art, engage with a museum’s audience and artist community, and support the work of the AACC in its role as a bridge between the Museum and the African American community and a supporter of emerging artists.}