# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Gallery Talk: Growing Up in the Shadow of Black Abstraction with Michaela Pilar Brown
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Jun, 2025 at 11:00 am – Thu, 26 Jun, 2025 at 11:45 am
- **Event Description**: Celebrate the work of Sam Gilliam during a gallery talk led by Michaela Pilar Brown, South Carolina artist, 2024 Joan Mitchell fellow, and owner of Mike Brown Contemporary Art Gallery. Learn about what it was like to be an artist in her formative years during Gilliam’s time in the Washington, D.C., area, and the value of exposure to working Black professional artists for aspiring young talent. Q&A to follow. 

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Brown is an independent curator and multidisciplinary artist using photography, installation, collage, painting, and performance. She is the 2018 grand prize winner of ArtFields’ juried art competition and a 2018 inaugural resident artist of the Volcanic Residency, Whakatane Museum, Whakatane, New Zealand. She was one of the six American artists selected to participate as a Resident Artist for OPEN IMMERSION: A VR CREATIVE DOC LAB produced by the CFC Media Lab, The National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and JustFilms | Ford Foundation in Toronto, Canada, an Inaugural Resident Artist at the 2016 Sedona Summer Colony and a 2016 Artist in Residence, Kunstlerwerkgemeinschaft Kaiserslautern, Germany, and has held residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the McColl Center for Art and Innovation. Brown’s work can be found in private and public museum collections in the United States. She is the former executive director of 701 Center for Contemporary Art, where she served from 2020 to 2022. She currently serves on the board of directors for One Columbia for Arts and Culture, a nonprofit organization formed to support and promote tourism in Columbia, and is also a board member of the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the oldest ongoing feminist granting agency. She is the new owner/director of Mike Brown Contemporary Art Gallery, formerly If ART.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/columbia/gallery-talk-growing-up-in-the-shadow-of-black-abstraction-with-michaela-pilar-brown/200028087151240
- **Event Categories**: art, fine-arts, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 189

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Columbia
- **state**: SC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Columbia Museum of Art
- **lat**: 34.006
- **long**: -81.03621
- **full address**: Columbia Museum of Art, 1515 Main St, Columbia, SC 29201-2807, United States,Columbia, South Carolina

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Gallery Talk: Growing Up in the Shadow of Black Abstraction with Michaela Pilar Brown being held?
  - **A:** Gallery Talk: Growing Up in the Shadow of Black Abstraction with Michaela Pilar Brown takes place on Thu, 26 Jun, 2025 at 11:00 am to Thu, 26 Jun, 2025 at 11:45 am at Columbia Museum of Art, 1515 Main St, Columbia, SC 29201-2807, United States,Columbia, South Carolina.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Gallery Talk: Growing Up in the Shadow of Black Abstraction with Michaela Pilar Brown?
  - **A:** Gallery Talk: Growing Up in the Shadow of Black Abstraction with Michaela Pilar Brown is organized by Columbia Museum of Art.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Gallery Talk: Growing Up in the Shadow of Black Abstraction with Michaela Pilar Brown is ideal for art lovers, trade professionals, collectors, and exhibition enthusiasts exploring the latest in their field. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Columbia, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. With 180+ people already showing interest, this is clearly an event worth adding to your calendar - don't miss out.

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