July Programs — Please Join Us!

Film Screening as part of Brooklyn Museum Summer Movie Series
Sunday, July 15
3:00 p.m.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
Film screening We Will Not Die Like Dogs (Lisa Russell, 2005,100 min., NR)

This documentary profiles AIDS activists from the four African countries of Nigeria, Uganda, Burkina Faso and Zambia and depicts how Africans are responding to the deadly epidemic. Director Lisa Russell is an independent documentary filmmaker with a background in international development whose films are often connected to campaigns that affect social change through awareness, fundraising and legislative advocacy.

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Panel Discussion “The Future of Feminist Art”

Saturday, July 21
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
The editors of the feminist art journal riffRAG moderate an intergenerational discussion with contemporary artists Sheila Pepe, Jaishri Abichandani, Erica Chough, and Em 16 about the impact of current feminist exhibitions, the opening of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and the direction feminist art will take in the future.

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Film Screening as part of Brooklyn Museum Summer Movie Series

Sunday, July 22
3:00 p.m.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
Film screening Girlfight (Karyn Kusama, 2000,110 min., R)

This film, by director Karyn Kusama, tells the tale of Diana Guzman, a young Latina woman living in the projects of Brooklyn who discovers her talent in the boxing ring. This feature won both the Grand Jury Prize for best film and Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000.

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Film Screening as part of Brooklyn Museum Summer Movie Series

Sunday, July 29
3:00 p.m.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor
Film screening I Was a Teenage Feminist (Therese Shechter, 2005, 62 min., NR).

Followed by Q&A with the filmmaker.

Therese Shechter takes a funny, moving and very personal journey into the heart of feminism as she documents her talks with Gloria Steinem, rowdy frat boys, a Cosmo-reading opera singer and even her own mother to find out whether feminism can still be a source of personal and political power.

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Melissa Messina

Melissa Messina

Before coming to the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Melissa Messina earned her MFA from Pratt Institute where she received the Presidential Merit Award in Painting. While there, she coordinated the 2005–06 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, which featured such artists as Vanessa Beecroft, Mariko Mori, Judy Pfaff, and Joan Snyder. During this time, she also worked as a Curatorial and Sales Associate for a private dealer in New York specializing in modern abstraction. Prior to moving to New York, Messina was hired by the City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs as an independent curator and executed several regional and national group exhibitions for their public art galleries, City Gallery East and City Gallery at Chastain. In Atlanta, she was also Assistant Director at Comer Art Advisory, LLC, in 2004, and a Curatorial and Marketing Associate for the art consulting firm, Barkin-Leeds Ltd., 2001–2003. She recently was the Assistant Curator to Ernesto Pujol for the exhibition Mediating America (June 2006) at the Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, and was invited to jury the exhibition Adam's Rib Eve's Air in Her Hair (January 2007) at the feminist art gallery SOHO20 in Chelsea. Her own artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the Southeast, New England, and New York.

Friday, July 13th, 2007
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Event