Overview:

Meet the Artist, a monthly artist talk series, is designed to connect aspiring and experienced collectors with artists who should be in your collection.

Attendees will learn the why and how of building an #artcollection, how to protect your collection, and how collecting art supports artists, our communities, and our culture. Most importantly, you will interact with contemporary artists and learn about their work and how to get their work in your collection.

This series is hosted in collaboration with Provident1898 and the Understudy

About Sed Miles:

Sed Miles is a self taught artist and activist. His artistic and political work focuses on themes related to identity, negritude and surrealism. His work expresses a spiritual link between documentary, fine art, and subjective narratives. Making great use of a double-voiced rhetoric, the signifying style of cultural critique, he cleverly initiates his view of this world with a formal visual vocabulary applied to the African Diaspora.

“I use image making and digital spaces to engage in transnational dialogues and critical thought about black diaspora modernism. I’m so thankful everyday to be blessed to see my people reflecting so much light, magic, strength, and aesthetic. I couldn’t imagine a life without it. I simply believe that our humanity is quintessentially beautiful. I want to leave artifacts for my decedents to know what I saw and loved in the moments of my life. My deepest passion is to create at least one object that lives forever as fuel for the struggles and during the celebrations."

His photography has been featured globally in galleries and public spaces throughout several communities where he’s been developing artistic workand relationships: US, Mexico, Brazil, Senegal, UK, and France. His first book of photography, The Pathfinder was self-published in 2015. Sed's current projects focusing his research on extending theorizations of transnational blackness from Afro surrealism, afrofuturism, Négritude, queer of colour critique, intersectional feminist frameworks, and black aesthetics.

Learn more about Sed's work: http://sedmiles.com/