RE: Artist as Medium Roundtable

RE: Artist as Medium allows for a deeper consideration of questions raised by Gala Porras-Kim’s exhibition, "Correspondences towards the living object". What are the ways in which an artist can create or conjure the voices of objects? How do artists help us have empathy for an object and the stories or intentions they represent?
These questions and more were considered in a roundtable discussion guided by Ronald Young, a St. Louis-based artist whose work builds on the tradition of power objects made by African and African Diasporic artists-objects that may contain or transmute spirits. Young was in conversation with collaborators who are invested in the ways artists can serve as a medium to connect with an object, including:
Adrienne Davis, collector and scholar
Renée Brummell Franklin, Chief Diversity Officer at the Saint Louis Art Museum
Thomas Sleet, artist
Pat Smith Thurman, Co-Founder of 10th Street Gallery