Join Marques Redd at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) on Saturday, June 7 at 2:00 PM for object lessons, a participatory event in conjunction with William Villalongo’s powerful exhibition, Myths and Migrations—FLOCK.

To flock is to gather and to cover. The event draws inspiration from both meanings: gathering together in a group and the velvety material known as flocking, a technique Villalongo frequently uses throughout the exhibition.

Over the course of 90 minutes, visitors will be guided through a series of thoughtful encounters with select artworks, led by a group of artists and scholars including Marques Redd, Mark Thomas Gibson, Lyra Monteiro, and Saya Woolfalk.

As part of the program, Marques Redd will present a talk entitled “Walking Through Worlds: Cosmology, Collage, and the Black Archive,” offering insights into his work. In conjunction with his talk, a photograph by Rainbow Serpent entitled The Four World Ages (III) will also be on display.

These “object lessons” invite participants to explore how the artworks activate a tangle of thoughts, memories, sensations, hopes, and frustrations. Visitors will be welcomed into the fold of Villalongo’s community of appreciators and encouraged to chart their own paths through themes of deep time, the contemporary moment, and possible futures held within the work.

Organized by William Villalongo and Sasha-Mae Eccelston, this program is free with museum admission and takes place at the Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building at PAFA.