Ada Pinkston

Ada Pinkston is a Baltimore-based artist, educator, and cultural organizer. She explores the intersection of imagined histories and sociopolitical realities on our bodies using performance, digital media, and mixed-media sculptures and installations. Her ongoing project, Landmarked, investigates new ways of activating the empty spaces left by the 48 Confederate monuments that have been removed. The project considers how we reframe public space to be more equitable and inclusive of all histories through civic engagement, the voices of people of color, and historical memories that are often overlooked by dominant cultural narratives found in public school textbooks. Each day this week her news curation will present a new focus on an individual set of stories.

Ada Pinkston is a multimedia artist, educator, and organizer living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. Born in New York, her artistic research interest spans the social sciences, global colonial histories, American Studies, and community art practices. Her work has been featured at a variety of spaces including The Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, LACMA, 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. She has presented lectures on public space at The French Embassy, NYU, UCLA and The National Gallery of Art. She is also an alumnus of the Monument Lab+Goethe Institute Transnational Fellowship. Her most recent work can be found in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

“Very honored to have been asked to participate in the artist news network. As we live in a world of multiplicities, there is never Only One of anything. That said, every day, there will be a new series/concept of focus.” – Ada Pinkston

Day 1 – Women artists who make public art (sometimes)
Day 2 – Strange Creatures in the universe
Day 3 – Moments of Black liberation
Day 4 – Controversial Public Art
Day 5 – Repair / Reparations
Day 6 – The Earth is going to Win (stories from the environment)
Day 7 – Looking up at the Ceiling and then seeing the sky (stories from outerspace)