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Media Coverage

Presentations
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Haiti: Step Back Leap Forward

March 28, 2018

Presented at Lesley’s Community of Scholars

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Haiti: Step Back Leap Forward

Presentation on the importance of reclaiming the stories that have been tarnished by outsiders

Presented at MIPSTERZ

October 6, 2017

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Luke Cage: Marvel Comics Superhero

Co-presented with Andres Rivera Martinez on the impact of positive representation in the media and identity

Lesley University

Thursday, February 2, 2017

by Anastasia Ricoy

Blog Posts

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Visualising Toussaint Louverture

the British Museum Blog

Charles Forsdick, Professor of French, University of Liverpool 

12 March 2018

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/visualising-toussaint-louverture/

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ROCKY COTARD AND LAURENT DUBOIS PRESENT “THE SLAVE REVOLUTION THAT GAVE BIRTH TO HAITI”

February 6, 2018

Repeating Islands

News and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature, and the arts

https://repeatingislands.com/2018/02/06/rocky-cotard-and-laurent-dubois-present-the-slave-revolution-that-gave-birth-to-haiti/

Jacob Lawrence, General Toussaint L'Ouverture from the series The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture. Screenprint

PodCast and Videos

 

Featured on Hoodgrown Aesthetic

Episode 27: Grass Ocean

https://soundcloud.com/hoodgrownaesthetic/episode-27-grass-ocean

 

 

 

Drawing Inspiration from Heritage and History

 

“For artist Rocky Cotard, returning to Haiti opened new avenues for self-discovery, expression, and discussing differences.

Published by Lesley University”

July 11, 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xot9_E82DPI

Featured

 

 

Portraits and Power Opening Reception

Article by Devon Keeley

March 02, 2018

http://www.neighbormedia.org/news/portraits-and-power-opening-reception

 

DISPLACED

at AVIARY GALLERY, DIG Boston

By M.J. TIDWELL

January 11, 2018

https://digboston.com/displaced-at-aviary-gallery/

 

 

Boston Printmakers 

An International Association of Artists

January 4th Work Featured on Website

https://www.bostonprintmakers.org/cotard_r_1/

 

 

Bringing the Arts to Cambridge – Spirit Awards 2016

Phoebe Sinclair

 September 14, 2016 

http://agassiz.org/2016/09/bringing-arts-cambridge-spirit-awards-2016/

 

 

High school students curate Black History artists’

Dorchester Reporter

by Chris Harding February 2014

https://www.dotnews.com/2014/high-school-students-curate-black-history-artists-exhibit

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

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Portraits & Power: An Exhibition by Rocky Cotard and Mosheh Tucker

March 2018

Cambridge Community Television (CCTV)

https://www.cctvcambridge.org/node/549733

 

 

Student artists add politics to portraiture

An exhibit at Lesley University explores feelings about the current political climate.

By Kristin Toussaint

January 26, 2017

Metro Boston

https://www.metro.us/boston/the-portrait-is-political-in-new-lesley-university-art-exhibit/zsJqaz---W0wQI0ZVBAbZ

 

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Portraits + Power

Student artists celebrate women of color

Bay State Banner

By Celina Colby

April 4, 2018

https://www.baystatebanner.com/2018/04/04/portraits-power/

 

 

The Massachusetts Medievalist praises the small, local art show

BY MARY DOCKRAY-MILLER

MARCH 20, 2018 

https://mdockraymiller.hcommons.org/2018/03/20/the-massachusetts-medievalist-praises-the-small-local-art-show/

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