Join artists M. Florine Démosthène and Didier William as they sit down with Katie Delmez, senior curator at the Frist Art Museum, for this conversation about the exhibition What the Body Carries.
About M. Florine Démosthène
M. Florine Démosthène was born in United States and grew up between Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and New York, New York. She earned her bachelor of fine arts degree from Parsons School for Design and her master of fine arts degree from Hunter College, City University of New York. She has been an artist in residence at the Nicholson Project, Washington, DC; the Silver Arts Studio, New York, New York; and the Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, among other programs. Démosthène has also been named a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellow and received the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, an Arts Moves Africa grant, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant. In recent years, she has lived in Accra, Ghana; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and New York, New York.
About Didier William
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Didier William moved to Miami, Florida, with his family when he was six years old. He received his bachelor of fine arts degree in painting from Maryland Institute College of Art and his master of fine arts degree in painting and printmaking from Yale University School of Art. William has received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, a Pew Fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant. He currently teaches at Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University and lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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