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ADAMA Arts Salon with Joycelyn Wilson & Selorm Attikpo
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Join us on Sunday, September 15 at 2pm for ADAMA’s upcoming in-person Arts Salon. Joycelyn Wilson to moderate a conversation with artist and hip-hop archivist Selorm Attikpo.
As part of ADAMA’s Arts Salon series, Villa Albertine resident Selorm Attikpo will be in conversation with Joycelyn Wilson, professor of hip-hop studies at Georgia Tech. The conversation will center around the African and diasporic hip-hop scene with a special focus on the American South and Ghana. Learn more
This event is in partnership with ADAMA (African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta). ADAMA Arts Salon is a series of conversations featuring contemporary artists, curators, scholars, and more from across the African Diaspora.
Selorm Attikpo aka SelormJay is an Accra based self-taught filmmaker, Photographer, DJ and cultural producer passionate about hip hop culture. Over the years, he has built a personal archive of close to 10,000 files related to hip hop in Ghana. Selorm is the founder and creative director of yoyo tinz – a multimedia platform created in 2013 dedicated to archiving, documenting and amplifying Ghanaian hip hop culture. He created the first ever Ghanian hip hop festival in 2018. He enjoys traveling the World to document hip hop artists. He is currently a resident of Villa Albertine Atlanta, researching how to create the first-ever museum and archive on Ghanaian hip-hop. Learn more about his residency project.
Joycelyn Wilson is an integrative curriculum designer, cultural studies educator, and faculty of Hip Hop Studies and Digital Media at Georgia Tech. She is the founder of the HipHop2020 Innovation Archive, an ed-tech start-up inspired by hip hop culture’s intersections with the art of teaching and learning. Wilson has contributed commentary to MSBNC, Netflix’s Hip Hop Evolution, VH1’s ATL Rise, and TV-One’s UnSung. Her work, currently, sits at the intersection of education and cultural politics, with an emphasis on the critical design natures of Black music, performance, and maker culture – as impacted by hip hop in the American South.
