Join us for Conversations about Care with current Resident Artist Zoe Cinel on December 9, 6:30–9 pm!

Come as you are for a community chat/tea time and share what CARE means to you, what forms of care you see happening in your community and how to extend these practices to our society. The liberating, empowering words of queer, BIPOC disability activists, chronically ill artists, and revolutionary healthcare practitioners, will be our conversation starters to discuss intersectionality, forms of resistance to capitalism and ableism, and radical interdependence. 

There will be tea and snacks, heating pads, and comfy seating for tired bodies. Masking is encouraged as a form of allyship to immunocompromised folks. No pre-reading is expected to attend this event, just an interest in sharing and listening. The conversation will be led by Zoe Cinel.

Zoe Cinel is an interdisciplinary artist and curator from a Mediterranean country whose work builds community around human experiences that are isolating and complex to navigate, such as immigration and chronic pain. Starting from her journey as a patient and a migrant and collaborating with artists or with specialists in fields such as medicine and urban design, with the ultimate goal to produce social change. Cinel received an MFA in Visual Studies from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her artistic and curatorial work has been at the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Gordon Parks Gallery at Metropolitan State University, and the Rochester Art Center. Cinel is a 2022-23 resident artist at Second Shift Studio Space and a member of the artistic collective CarryOn Homes.