Please join us for a Book Launch and conversation between artist Jacolby Satterwhite and writer, critic, and educator Sasha Bonét. The conversation is a celebration of the launch of Satterwhite’s first major monograph, How lovly is me being as I am which is a companion to his current exhibition, Spirits Roaming on the Earth currently on view at Miller Institute for Contemporary Art.

The conversation will conclude with music from Satterwhite’s album Love Will Find A Way Home, a cash bar and an opportunity to purchase a signed copy (an edition of 50) of How lovly is me being as I am.

Edited by Elizabeth Chodos and Andrew Durbin. Preface by Elizabeth Chodos. Introduction by Andrew Durbin. Contributions by Sasha Bonét, Malik Gaines, Jane Ursula Harris, Legacy Russell, Kimberly Drew. Book design by Sonia Yoon. Cover photography © Henry Leutwyler 2021

We encourage guests to visit Spirits Roaming on the Earth at the Miller ICA in advance of the program. The Book Launch event is just three blocks away at the Carnegie Museum of Art.

Event location - The Café Carnegie at the Carnegie Museum of Art

Event Live Stream - Click here to stream the event live

Book - Jacolby Satterwhite: How lovly is me being as i am

Exhibition - Jacolby Satterwhite: Spirits Roaming on the Earth

JACOLBY SATTERWHITE

Jacolby Satterwhite was born in 1986 in Columbia, South Carolina. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Arts, Baltimore, and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Satterwhite’s work has been presented in numerous exhibitions and festivals internationally, including most recently at Haus der Kunst, Munich (2021); Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2021); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2021); Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia (2019); Pioneer Works, New York (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2019); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2019); Minneapolis Institute of Art (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2018); Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2018); New Museum, New York (2017); Public Art Fund, New York (2017); San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco (2017); and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2017). He was awarded the United States Artist Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz Fellowship in 2016. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. In 2019, Satterwhite collaborated with Solange Knowles on her visual album, “When I Get Home.”

SASHA BONÉT

Sasha Bonét is a writer, critic, and educator living in New York City. While employing various mediums for storytelling, Bonét’s work explores the ways in which race, gender, and art influence cultural norms and the ways we experience them. With an anthropological approach, Bonét shifts from criticism to profiles to poetry with one objective in mind, to illuminate the nuances of humanity. Bonét is currently at work on a collection of non-fiction narrative essays on Memory + Motherhood in America. She studied at Columbia University's creative writing MFA program. She currently teaches as an assistant professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, Barnard’s English department, and part-time at The New School’s Parsons School of Design photography BFA department.