Please join Ebitenyefa Baralaye and Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan for a tour of Hear Me Now for a discussion of the works in the exhibition and relationships with the art practice of Baralaye who works in similar materials and processes. They will focus on specific works that resonate personally for the artist and discuss what questions the exhibition raises around memory, equity and legacy for local communities in Detroit and Southeast Michigan.
Ebitenyefa Baralaye (he/him) is a ceramicist, sculptor, designer, and educator. His work explores cultural, spiritual, and material translations of objects, text, bodies, and symbols interpreted through a diaspora lens and abstracted around the aesthetics of craft and design. Baralaye’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Friedman Benda Gallery (New York), David Klein Gallery (Detroit), and the Korea Ceramic Foundation (Icheon), among others. He is currently an assistant professor and the Section Lead of Ceramics at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI.
Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan (she/hers) is a curator, writer, and arts administrator based in Detroit. She has worked on numerous exhibitions of contemporary art nationally and internationally and is the co-founding editor of Infinite Mile, a journal of art and cultures in Detroit. Through her work, she aims to create change within art and cultural organizations so that inclusivity, belonging, equity, and access can be more fully realized in the production,
