A Talk with Artist Bernard Stanley Hoyes

A Desert Art Center Art Enrichment Program

Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Cost: Free
Location: DAC Auditorium

Jamaican born visual artist Bernard Hoyes will give a 45 minute talk on the "Self-Validating Artist," followed by a question and answer session.

"One main aspect of a self-validating artist is the satisfaction of achieving a level of independence as it relates to... being economically self supporting. We will discuss some of the requirements in becoming a successful artist outside of the institutional validation system."

Bernard's work has appeared on “The Cosby Show”and “A Different World,” and hangs in the collections of Oprah Winfrey, Steve Harvey and Richard Pryor, among others. Most recently Hoyes co-curated the “Visual Voice” exhibition with Charles Bibbs at the Riverside Art Museum. The museum highlighted the renaissance of 19 black artists during their quest for selfvalidation during the ’80s and ’90s in Southern California.