Carrie Mae Weems: Thirteen Questions for Wynton Marsalis & Cornel West

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Art21 first featured artist Carrie Mae Weems in 2009
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Learn more about the artist and the original film on PBS.

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Own Season 5 Today: Blu-ray or DVD
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Carrie Mae Weems is featured in the Art21 episode "Compassion" along with fellow artists William Kentridge and Doris Salcedo.

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National Black Arts Festival
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This panel discussion was sponsored by the National Black Arts Festival (NBAF), a year-round cultural celebration in Atlanta, Georgia. The mission of NBAF is to engage, cultivate and educate diverse audiences about the arts and culture of the African Diaspora and provide opportunities for artistic and creative expression.

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Dr. Cornel West on Compassion
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Cornel West, Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University, discusses how philosophy, faith, and music have influenced his thinking. (via WNYC)

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Wynton Marsalis
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Wynton Marsalis has been described as the most outstanding jazz musician and trumpeter of his generation, as one of the world’s top classical trumpeters, as a big band leader in the tradition of Duke Ellington, a brilliant composer, a devoted advocate for the Arts and a tireless and inspiring educator. According to Marsalis, what you hear in a great jazz band is the sound of democracy. “The jazz band works best when participation is shaped by intelligent communication.”

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Wynton Marsalis plays "Cherokee"
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Weems on "From Here I Saw What Happened (And I Cried)"
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Channels: American ArtCarrie Mae WeemsContemporary ArtPhotography

Exclusive Episode #078: As part of a panel discussion moderated by Baraka Sele at the 20th National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, artist Carrie Mae Weems poses thirteen questions to musician Wynton Marsalis and professor Cornel West, followed by an impromptu song and dance by the participants and audience.

Weems's vibrant explorations of photography, video, and verse breathe new life into traditional narrative forms—social documentary, tableaux, self-portrait, and oral history. Eliciting epic contexts from individually framed moments, Weems debunks racist and sexist labels, examines the relationship between power and aesthetics, and uses personal biography to articulate broader truths. Whether adapting or appropriating archival images, restaging famous news photographs, or creating altogether new scenes, she traces an indirect history of the depiction of African Americans for more than a century.

Learn more about Carrie Mae Weems: http://www.art21.org/artists/carrie-mae-weems

VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Evan McIntosh. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Thanks: Wynton Marsalis, Baraka Sele, Dr. Cornel West, and the National Black Arts Festival.

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