The GAC Winter Art Salon offers an opportunity to participate in a conversation about the arts, rather than remain passive as an audience member.

Artist and art instructor Wilhelmina Obatola Grant-Cooper will welcome us to her studio via Zoom to share her artworks, process and story.  She is a cancer survivor, who discovered her artistic calling through healing.  We will have a powerpoint presentation followed by a Q and A. by Beth Gersh-Nešić, director of the New York Arts Exchange, will conduct the interview.

Ms. Grant-Cooper founded SISTAAH, Inc. (Survivors Inspiring Sisters Through Art and Advocacy for Health), an arts-based non-profit organization which seeks to inform, encourage and facilitate access to early detection of breast cancer by connecting the medically underserved to free screening services. Through SISTAAH, Inc.,  she also launched two successful grant-funded community art projects: Saving Our Sisters in the African American Community, and the Harlem Hand Fan Initiative.

Ms. Grant-Cooper creates assemblages using mixed-media and found objects which she repurposes into visual art.  Among her collectors are  Alice Walker, President Bill Clinton, Vy Higginson, Hoda Kotb, Hamilton Landmark Galleries, Heath Gallery and Universal Studios. 

Her memoir A Feeling of Fullness: Insights of a Divinely Guided Journey Beyond Breast Cancer (2016) is available on her website:  https://sistaah.org/

About Beth S. Gersh-Nešić, Ph.D., is an art historian and the director of the New York Arts Exchange, an arts education service. Dr. Gersh-Nešić has published on Picasso, Cubism, and the art criticism of Picasso’s close friend, the poet André Salmon: www.andresalmon.org. Her specialty is 19th and 20th century modern art and contemporary art. She contributes to the online magazine Bonjour Paris and currently teaches art history at Mercy College.

Wednesday, March 10 at 7PM