November 5: Roundtable on Experimental Praxis at CADVC

Artist Roundtable on experimental praxis

November 5, 2026 6PM–8PM at CADVC

Artist roundtable on experimental praxis moderated by Dr. Karin Oen-Lee, in conversation with Lehna Huie and Ada Pinkston!

This event is associated with the exhibition “Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly,” curated by Angela N. Carroll.

Karin Oen-Lee is an Assistant Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at UMBC as well as a curator and museum educator whose work focuses on transmediatic and transcultural art practices that defy easy categorization. Her current area of focus is a book project that investigates new media experimental artistic practices in early Reform Era China (1978–1989). Previously Director of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, head of NTU’s art history department, and a curator at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Oen-Lee foregrounds supporting artists’ research practices, transdisciplinary collaborations, and the historiography of art and its institutions as modes of curation and knowledge production.  

Lehna Huie describes her work work as an ongoing exploration of memory, lineage, and the stories that shape us. "Concentrated on tracing non-linear time and ritual, my compositions combine paint, textile scraps, paper, beads, shells, plant matter, and everyday objects to honor and personify the land and waters surrounding my roots." Huie has participated in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally at select institutions and galleries such as National Gallery of Jamaica, ACRE Projects in Chicago,Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art in NY, Museum of Contemporary Art in Arlington, VA, Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn, NY, Creative Alliance in Baltimore, Rush Arts in Philadelphia, PA, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Quartair Contemporary Gallery in the Netherlands and The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in NY. She was named an Artist Changemaker with Global Fund for Women and has received multiple awards including the Space for Creative Black Imagination Makers & Research Fellowship and two Puffin Foundation grants. Trained through the Joan Mitchell Foundation, her practice includes work as a Legacy Specialist preserving intergenerational artists archives and oral histories.

Ada Pinkston is a multimedia artist, educator, community artist, and cultural organizer living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. Her work lives in the liminal space between history and the body, the archive and the flesh. She is a multimedia artist, an educator, and a cultural archivist investigating the erasures and mythologies surrounding Black life, memory, and public space. Through performance, digital media, printmaking, and sculpture, she creates speculative monuments and counter-narratives that ask: who is remembered, who is forgotten, and what tools do we use to build a more truthful collective memory? Her performance work has been featured at a variety of spaces including The Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Walters Art Museum, The Peale Museum, Transmodern Performance Festival, P.S.1, The New Museum, Light City Baltimore and the streets of Berlin, Baltimore, Orlando, Washington DC, and New York. A graduate of Wesleyan University (B.A.) and Maryland Institute College of Art (M.F.A.) She currently is a lecturer in art education at Towson University. She has presented public lectures on memory and public space at The French Embassy, NYU, UCLA, USC, Columbia University, and The National Gallery of Art. Her work has been supported by The Yaddo Artist Residency and McDowell Colony. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Spelman Museum and the augmented reality sculpture garden at Magic Johnson Park in South Central Los Angeles. Limited editions of her most recent work can be found at The Mimosa House London. In 2023, she was appointed as a member of the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture under the leadership of Governor Wes Moore.

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