Informal Economies and the Language of Legacy

Featuring Erica Cardwell and Marton Robinson

With opening readings by Chauncey Downer-Hincks and Jada White

Moderated by Jennifer Kasiama

Friday, February 25
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET

Location: Online (Zoom)
https://bit.ly/ocadu25 - Event Zoom Link

Produced with the Creative Writing Program and The Black Caucus

The Watering Hole is a series of salon-style discussions between artists, community actors, students and faculty.

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Erica Cardwell is a writer, critic, and educator currently based in Toronto. She is the recent recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grants in support of her forthcoming book, Wrong Is Not My Name, which will be published by The Feminist Press in 2023. Her teaching and writing practice center the imaginations of racialized people as a tool for social, spiritual, and collective movement. Erica has been awarded residencies and fellowships from the Lambda Literary Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and the Queer Art Mentorship. Her work has appeared in C Mag, Frieze, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, CULTURED, ARTS.BLACK, and elsewhere. She received her MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and has taught writing for Parsons School of Design, Barnard College, and the City University of New York. 

Marton Robinson is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Design, Faculty of Art and Graduates Studies. The Costa Rican artist has an interdisciplinary background informed by his studies in both Physical Education and Art and Visual Communication. Robinson’s art, which is informed mainly by African-American traditions, challenges the conventional representations of black identities in art history, mainstream culture, and the official national narratives, especially those of Costa Rica. Robinson’s work exposes the nuances present in the Afro-Latino experience, enriching the critical discourse of contemporary works of the nuances present in the Afro-Latino experience, enriching the critical discourse of contemporary works of the African Diaspora. the Afro-Latino experience, enriching the critical discourse of contemporary works of the African Diaspora. Robinson has participated in exhibitions in acclaimed galleries and spaces across the globe.