Creative Seedlings
Dinner & Dialogue
![close up of Wesley Clark's genesis](/sites/default/files/styles/feature_extra_large_no_crop_1200_/public/2022-09/phillips-juneteenth-87.jpg?itok=4fvJHs3C)
Inspired by Wesley Clark’s centennial installation genesis, Phillips@THEARC, in collaboration with Blerdcon founder Hilton George, hosts a series of dinner and dialogues on Blerd culture.
Join us for a full year of Creative Seedlings:
- September 12, 2024
- December 12, 2024
- April 11, 2025
- June 12, 2025
![Blerdcon logo](/sites/default/files/2024-08/blerdcon%20logo.jpg)
September 12 Program
Join us for supper, music by DJ CANDIKRUSH, and an engaging artist talk with acclaimed visual artist Sandy Williams IV whose wax sculpture of the Lincoln Memorial (part of their series 40 ACRES: Camp Barker with CulturalDC) went viral this summer. Supper provided by Taste of Trelawny.
![Melted wax sculpture of Lincoln Memorial](/sites/default/files/2024-08/240628_JF_SWIV_BIG_LINCOLN_074.jpg)
About Sandy Williams IV
Sandy Williams IV is an artist and educator whose work generates moments of communal catharsis. Their conceptual practice uses time itself as a material and aims to unfold the hidden legacies of public spaces. Through ephemeral, malleable, and collaborative public memorials, Williams’s work unsettles popular colonial logics of permanence, uniformity, and displacement. This work creates participatory paths for communal engagement informed by targeted research and site-specificity: holding space for disenfranchised public memories and visualizing frameworks of emancipation and shared agency.
![Photograph of Sandy Williams IV](/sites/default/files/2024-08/Sandy%20Williams%20IV%20Headshot.png)