Samora Pinderhughes: I Hope This Finds You Well

Composer, pianist, vocalist, and filmmaker Samora Pinderhughes will present a work-in-progress showing of I Hope This Finds You Well, a developing multidisciplinary music performance work which combines detailed compositional work with the participatory energy of a concert, the character-driven structure of theater, and the guiding principle of the chorus. The piece will amplify the testimonials of those harmed by incarceration, policing, and detention, imagining a world that supports vulnerability — an artistic celebration of resilience, repair, and resistance.

This showing is the culmination of Pinderhughes' residency at ArtYard, a partnership of ArtYard and Pomegrante Arts.

ArtYard supports creative incubation, and we invite you to join us to witness the inner workings of creating a new work.

Samora Pinderhughes is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and filmmaker known for striking vulnerability and carefully crafted, radically honest art. He is also known for using his art to examine sociopolitical issues and fight for change. His rhizomatic practice as it stands today broadly encompasses sound, performance, installation, sculpture, and social practice. His artwork is renowned for its emotionality, its honesty about difficult and complex topics, and its careful details in word, image, and sound.

As an artist, Pinderhughes’ goal is that people will LIVE DIFFERENTLY after experiencing what he makes — that it will affect how they think, how they act, how they relate to others, how they consider their daily relationships to their country and their world. The New York Times described Pinderhughes as a “visionary” who “turn(s) the experience of living in community inside-out, revealing all its personal detail and tension, and giving voice to registers of pain that are commonly shared but not often articulated.”

Pinderhughes has collaborated with artists across boundaries, including Herbie Hancock, Glenn Ligon, Sara Bareilles, Common, Robert Glasper, Simone Leigh, Daveed Diggs, Kyle Abraham, Titus Kaphar, and his mentor Anna Deavere Smith. Pinderhughes is also the Artistic & Executive Director of The Healing Project, a community arts organization that creates narrative change and collective healing in partnership with individuals impacted by structural violence to build a world based around healing rather than punishment.

About ArtYard

ArtYard is an incubator for creative expression and a catalyst for collaborations that reveal the transformational power of art. We are an interdisciplinary alternative contemporary art center comprised of an exhibition space, theater, and residency program, dedicated to presenting transformative artwork, fostering unexpected collaborations, and incubating original new work.

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