Our MPOP series wraps up tonight with Lash Nolen!
**Friday, September 4, 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**
Tonight concludes our MPOP series on the [City Reliquary Instagram](http://www.instagram.com/cityreliquary)! We will be honoring activist, writer, and Harvard Medical School student [LaShyra "Lash" Nolen](https://lashyranolen.com/). Nolen is the first Black woman to serve as student body president at Harvard Medical School, and she is a [passionate advocate](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/14/opinion/why-doesnt-medical-school-prioritize-social-justice/) for health equity and social justice. George will create the twelfth portrait in the MPOP series with a live drawing of Nolen, 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 Nolen's calls for a more equitable health care system.
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 **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 Princeton scholar [Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor](https://uncpress.org/book/9781469653662/race-for-profit/), author of *Race for Profit*. While we saw the fine portrait below take shape over Instagram, we heard an interview with Taylor about her research on how systemic racism and predatory financialization maintained housing segregation and continued to cripple Black wealth after the redlining era.
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 **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 Princeton scholar [Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor](https://uncpress.org/book/9781469653662/race-for-profit/), author of *Race for Profit*. While we saw the fine portrait below take shape over Instagram, we heard an interview with Taylor about her research on how systemic racism and predatory financialization maintained housing segregation and continued to cripple Black wealth after the redlining era.
Tonight's portrait will be the last 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.
If you've missed any of these sessions or would like to revisit them, recordings of George's live drawings and the completed portraits are archived on the [City Reliquary Instagram](http://www.instagram.com/cityreliquary) page, and you can see the portraits on our [Flickr](https://www.flickr.com/photos/cityreliquary/albums/72157714771383501) page as well.
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