Ma’s House resident artist Joshua Allen will be joined by art writer Jasmine Weber at the historic Nathaniel Rogers House for an insightful conversation on the themes of queerness, identity, diaspora, healing and empowerment. The discussion will delve into Joshua’s artistic journey and social practice, focusing on his recent projects such as “Waves” and the forthcoming solo exhibition “Returning Home.” These works explore the complexities of the African American experience, ancestral memory, queerness and personal transformation. Presented in partnership by The Bridgehampton Museum and Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Inc.
About Joshua Obawole Allen
Joshua Obawole Allen (b. 1995, Brooklyn, New York) is a multidisciplinary artist and activist whose practice invites viewers to radically reimagine the world as a more just, equitable and joyous place. Their work has been included in group exhibitions at AM:PM Gallery (2025) the Center for Black Visual Culture at NYU (2024), Leslie Lohman Museum (2024), Armory Week (2024), Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Arts (2024) and the nationwide For Freedoms, Wide Awakes billboard campaign (2020). Joshua has also been awarded prestigious residencies at the World Trade Center (2021),The Watermill Center (2022), the Brooklyn Museum (2022) and Ma’s House (2025).
About Jasmine Weber
Jasmine is a writer, editor, and artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her writing has appeared and is forthcoming in Burnaway, Cultured Magazine, Document Journal, Hyperallergic, and Seen Journal. In 2021, she was awarded the Rabkin Prize for Visual Arts Journalism. In 2024, she participated in the Center for Book Arts' Small Press Incubator and was a June resident of the Storyknife Writers Retreat. Jasmine is a recipient of the 2024 Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in Short-Form Writing, supporting a developing series of articles on the historically Black beach enclaves in Sag Harbor, NY, and their artistic histories.
