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MEMORY, BLACK SPACE, & CONTEMPLATION: Marvin Touré, L. Kasimu Harris, and Dominique Duroseau in Conversation
MEMORY, BLACK SPACE, & CONTEMPLATION: Marvin Touré, L. Kasimu Harris, and Dominique Duroseau in Conversation
Saturday, March 15th, 2025 at 2pm
Moderated by Vernelle A. A. Noel, PhD
FREE! And Open to the Public
Join ALL STARS artists Marvin Touré and L. Kasimu Harris and our current resident artist Dominique Duroseau as they discuss their respective practices and shared themes around memory, Black space, and contemplation. Moderated by Vernelle A. A. Noel, PhD, Assistant Professor of Computational Design at Carnegie Mellon University.
Marvin Touré
Photo courtesy of the artist.
Marvin Touré is an Ivorian-American interdisciplinary artist who uses fictional narratives and the objects of innocence as a vehicle to interrogate themes of love, loss, and memory. In 2014 he received a B.A. in New Media Arts with a minor in Architecture from Southern Polytechnic State University (now Kennesaw State University) in Marietta, Georgia. In 2016 he received an M.F.A. in Fine Arts from The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Marvin has also completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2016), the Franconia Sculpture Park (2018), and SVA MFA Fine Arts’s Life on an Island on Governors Island, New York (2019). His work has been featured in solo exhibitions at The AC Institute in New York City (2018), and Haul gallery in Brooklyn, New York (2019 & 2021). In 2021, he was named the inaugural artist-in-residence at ALMA | LEWIS, located in Pittsburgh, PA. Marvin has been with the University of Pittsburgh’s Architectural Studies program as a design instructor since the fall of 2022. In 2023, he was selected as an artist in residence at the Mattress Factory for the development of a solo exhibition(2024), chosen as part of 1Hood Media’s Artivist Academy 2023 cohort, and an Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh two-year grant recipient.
L. Kasimu Harris
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 has shown in numerous group exhibitions across the US and two international exhibitions and has had eight solo photography exhibitions.
In November 2024, Harris debuted new work from the Vanishing Black Bars & Lounges series in Prospect.6: the future is present, the harbinger is home. This work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Hilliard Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana. Harris’s writing and photography were featured in “A Shot Before Last Call: Capturing New Orleans’s Vanishing Black Bars” in The New York Times.
Most recently, Harris was the unit still photographer for Nickel Boys, a movie directed by RaMell Ross and based on the Colson Whitehead novel.
Dominique Duroseau
Born in Chicago and raised in Haiti, Dominique Duroseau is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice examines themes of racism, socio-cultural issues, and existential dehumanization. Through sculpture, performance, video, and installation, Duroseau confronts the uncomfortable truths of race, gender, and human existence, creating works that challenge and engage audiences to reflect on societal and cultural constructs.
Duroseau holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art, a Bachelor of Architecture from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a Master of Fine Arts from Kean University. Her work has been featured in exhibitions, performances, and screenings at prominent venues including The Kitchen, The Brooklyn Museum, and The New Museum (BWA for BLM) in New York City.
Vernelle A. A. Noel, Ph.D.
Vernelle A. A. Noel, Ph.D. is an architect, design scholar, artist, TED Speaker, and Director of the Situated Computation + Design Lab where she investigates traditional and automated practices, and their intersections with society. Using interdisciplinary approaches, she builds new frameworks, methodologies, and tools to explore social, cultural, and political aspects of computation and emerging technologies for new reconfigurations of practice, pedagogy, and publics. Her research has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Mozilla Foundation, and ideas2innovation (i2i), among others. Dr. Noel is a recipient of the DigitalFUTURES Young Award for exceptional research and scholarship in the field of critical computational design. She has a TEDx Talk titled, “The Power of Making: Craft, Computation, and Carnival.”
Dr. Noel holds a Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University, a Master of Science in Architecture Studies from MIT, a Bachelor of Architecture from Howard University, and a Diploma in Civil Engineering from the John S. Donaldson Technical Institute (Trinidad & Tobago).