Exhibition Walk Through: Seph Rodney & Alistair Monroe
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7 PM
An exhibition walk through with Seph Rodney and Alistair Monroe during the opening reception of Arthur Monroe: Know Your Axe.
Seph Rodney, PhD is a regular contributor to The New York Times, and a former senior critic and opinions editor for Hyperallergic. He has also written for CNN, NBC, Art in America, Art Forum, The Guardian, and several other publications. In 2020 he won the Rabkin Arts Journalism prize and in 2022 won the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. He is also a curator of contemporary art exhibitions, lately co-curating Get in the Game, at SF MoMA, the largest show that museum has undertaken. He will also co-curate a show on the American landscape to open at the Church at Sag Harbor in June of 2026.
Alistair Monroe is an inner-city, community-based cultural arts producer and promoter, he works to enrich and beautify urban environments through humanitarian platforms.
With a rich family history of artistry and hospitality, he was the founder of the North Beach Jazz Festival in the heart and soul of San Francisco, managed multiple artists including Bay Area’s jazz ensemble, Mingus Amungus when they toured Havana, Cuba in 1997 and recorded an album there.
In 2017, Alistair founded the Oakland Cannery Collective to protect and preserve the Oakland Cannery artist community and father’s legacy. As a result, he changed legislation that protected over 25 live-work warehouses in Oakland, from real estate developers. He has continued to advocate for affordable housing while representing the family Estate of Arthur Monroe.
