The College of Michigan Faculty of Social Work, in collaboration with the U-M Arts Initiative, proudly proclaims the number of the Pan-African Artistic Trade (PACE) because the featured artist residency for 2024. This initiative, part of the Arts Initiative’s Visiting Artist Integration Program (VAIP), is designed to infuse the College of Michigan’s engagement and studying processes with the dynamic creativity of artists.
About Pan-African Artistic Trade (PACE)
PACE, based on the prestigious Vrystaat Arts Competition on the College of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa, serves as a biennial arts market and showcase for African and African-diaspora artists. The platform supplies a gateway for presenting tour-ready work, showcasing excerpts, pitching new creations, facilitating producer exchanges, internet hosting workshops, and fostering essential debates—in the end creating a useful community for artists and creatives. The 2024 U-M Faculty of Social Work Artist Residency will characteristic a bi-coastal duo, Nike Jonah and Erwin Maas, who specialise in artwork consultancy throughout numerous inventive sectors. Their residency, happening throughout two weeks in February (Feb. 8-14) and April (April 10-15) will embody masterclasses, workshops, and conversations aimed toward enriching the U-M group and the Southeast Michigan area.
Nike Jonah and Erwin Maas
Jonah, a British Nigerian based mostly in London, and Maas, a Dutch-American based mostly in NYC, convey a wealth of worldwide expertise to U-M. Their various backgrounds and experience promise a novel perspective on variety, fairness, and inclusion issues, in addition to the sustainability of performing arts professions in Africa and its diaspora.
“We’re excited to accomplice with the U-M Arts Initiative to host these two residencies, which is able to discover the range of cultural expression and the way the humanities can drive social change. The intersection of social work, social justice and the humanities is a vibrant and impactful space of research. I look ahead to participating in compelling and thought scary conversations,” mentioned Beth Angell, Dean and Phillip Fellin Collegiate Professor on the U-M Faculty of Social Work.
