Tonight's MPOP subject is Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
**Friday, August 28, 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 Princeton professor and writer [Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor](https://aas.princeton.edu/people/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor). Taylor's most recent work, *Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership*, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history in 2020. George will create the eleventh portrait in the MPOP series with a live drawing of Taylor, 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 Taylor's vital research.
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 artist [Kara Walker](http://www.karawalkerstudio.com/biography), who scarcely requires an introduction. While we saw the fine portrait below take shape over Instagram, we heard an interview with Walker about her 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 artist [Kara Walker](http://www.karawalkerstudio.com/biography), who scarcely requires an introduction. While we saw the fine portrait below take shape over Instagram, we heard an interview with Walker about her practice.
Tonight's portrait will be the penultimate one in our MPOP series. We hope you'll join us at 8 PM on [Instagram](http://www.instagram.com/cityreliquary) ([@cityreliquary](http://instagram.com/cityreliquary)) to see George's process live and take some time to reflect on the issues of the moment.
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