MPOP continues! Tonight's subject is Kara Walker
**Friday, August 21, 2020
City Reliquary Live Presents:
Mediocre Portraits of Outstanding People**
**Live at 8 pm EDT on the City Reliquary Instagram**
**Live at 8 pm EDT on the City Reliquary Instagram**
Our MPOP programming continues tonight on the [City Reliquary Instagram](http://www.instagram.com/cityreliquary)! We will be honoring legendary artist [Kara Walker](http://www.karawalkerstudio.com/biography). Walker's iconic silhouettes interrogating race, gender, sexuality, and violence feature in museum collections all over the world, and in 2014 her first large-scale public project *A Subtlety* was exhibited in our own neighborhood at the abandoned Domino sugar refinery. George will create the tenth portrait in the MPOP series with a live drawing of Walker, while broadcasting an interview with her. Tune in **tonight at 8 pm** to watch the progress of this week's portrait - draw along if you like - and listen and learn from Walker's profound practice.
In our Instagram series *Mediocre Portraits of Outstanding People*, the City Reliquary's neighborhood artist-in-residence, [George Ferrandi](http://www.georgeferrandi.com/about), takes to Instagram live for an hour each **Friday at 8:00 pm EDT** to create a sketch of and reflect on someone who has been influencing her thinking this week during this remarkable cultural moment.
During this series, George will be listening to and learning from Black thinkers while attempting to honor them through portraiture, and sharing the experience live with our audience.
In our last MPOP edition, the focus was on leadership trainer and public lands advocate [Rue Mapp](https://outdoorafro.com/team/). While we saw the portrait below take shape over Instagram, we heard an interview with Mapp about building the relationship between Black youth and nature. We had some technical issues last week late in the livestream, but you can catch up with the archived video [here](https://www.instagram.com/p/CD5B0lTHvoI/).
In our Instagram series *Mediocre Portraits of Outstanding People*, the City Reliquary's neighborhood artist-in-residence, [George Ferrandi](http://www.georgeferrandi.com/about), takes to Instagram live for an hour each **Friday at 8:00 pm EDT** to create a sketch of and reflect on someone who has been influencing her thinking this week during this remarkable cultural moment.
During this series, George will be listening to and learning from Black thinkers while attempting to honor them through portraiture, and sharing the experience live with our audience.
In our last MPOP edition, the focus was on leadership trainer and public lands advocate [Rue Mapp](https://outdoorafro.com/team/). While we saw the portrait below take shape over Instagram, we heard an interview with Mapp about building the relationship between Black youth and nature. We had some technical issues last week late in the livestream, but you can catch up with the archived video [here](https://www.instagram.com/p/CD5B0lTHvoI/).
The MPOP series will come to an end with the 12th edition, so you have three more chances to see George's process live and take some time to reflect on the issues of the moment. We hope you'll join us at 8 PM on [Instagram](http://www.instagram.com/cityreliquary) ([@cityreliquary](http://instagram.com/cityreliquary)).
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