Free
About the lecture
By presenting diverse points of view, the Lunch and Chats with a Designer aim to illustrate the plurality of perspectives and voices inherent to the field of design, and to stimulate a deeper reflection on this topic.
About the guest speaker
Taisha Carrington is a multidisciplinary artist working in jewelry, performance, installation and sculpture. Born in Barbados, she focuses on place making, adaptation and choices that drive immigration, while proposing methods for reimagining the value of Caribbean people and communities. Carrington graduated from Pratt Institute in 2018 with a BFA in Jewelry Design. In addition to being recognized as a CFDA+ Design Graduate by the Council of Fashion Designers of America, she was chosen for NYC Jewelry Week’s One For The Future program and was a finalist for Art Jewelry Forum’s Young Artist Award in 2022. Her work can be found in the collections of The Dallas Museum of Art and Montreal’s Stewart Program for Modern Design.
About the host
Chief Curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts since 2020, Mary-Dailey Desmarais oversees a multidisciplinary team dedicated to enriching, promulgating and preserving a collection of over 45,000 art works and objects dating from antiquity to the present. She joined the Museum in 2014. Notable among the exhibitions she has curated are Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music (2022), How Long Does It Take for One Voice to Reach Another (2021); Adam Pendleton: These Things We’ve Done Together (2021) and Once Upon a Time... The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film (2017), whose accompanying catalogue won two awards. She has published widely in scholarly journals, exhibition catalogues, and art magazines on subjects ranging from Impressionism to Global Modern and Contemporary Art. Originally from New York, she holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Yale, an M.A. from Williams College and a B.A. from Stanford.
