JUMP

installation materials: gifted tablecloth, reclaimed dinner table set, potted orchid, looped HD video 4:47 (2024)

JUMP (detail, silent)

vintage home video, various iconic Hollywood film snippets, animation snippets.

How We Make Banana Pudding

2015. HD glitched video (silent), 1:20

How We Make Red Velvet Cake

2015. HD glitched video (silent), :48

Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity: The Tassels

2013. Documented as a Tableau Vivant performance at The Art Institute of Chicago during the exhibition of the (unmodified) same name. HD video, 2:40

Urban Derive 365

2014. Looped HD video (silent), 4:54

Diasporic Sugar.mov

2014. HD glitched video, 1:05

Art & Context (pilot snippet)

2018. Created and Produced by Shonna Pryor. The tablecloth assumes a rich traditional context, when a curated group of 3 visual artists (A. Martine Whitehead, Damon Locks, Raymond Thomas) join political analyst Laura Washington for Sunday dinner fellowship within the gallery space of the historic South Side Community Art Center. The moderator and guests of 3 artists per week discuss topic-specific political current affairs such as the institution of mass incarceration, wealth equity, and food security relative to specific marginalized groups, and within the context of art practice. The original treatment proposal for this pilot as a broadcast series was shortlisted for Harvard University's 2017 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellowship Award.

Art & Design in Chicago

2018-19. Four-part television broadcast docu-series aired on WTTW Chicago PBS. The series profile artists and designers who participated in establishing the city of Chicago as an important and prolific industry contributor. With lead WTTW producer Dan Andries and funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art, our team of 5 each took home an Emmy for the category of Outstanding Achievement in Arts/Entertainment Programing Program/Special Series by the Midwest National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.