Are You Down?

Directors Dennis Scholl and Juan Luis Matos will be in attendance to participate in a post-screening Q&A.

Born in New York and raised in Jamaica with Costa Rican and Jamaican parents, late artist Michael Richards explored themes surrounding the intricacies of Blackness through his incredible draftsmanship and symbolic sculptures often referencing Tuskegee Airmen. Having shown his work at the Studio Museum in Harlem and Franconia Sculpture Park, Richards was a very well-respected emerging artist in the late 90s. Using archival material and intimate interviews with renowned curators and artists, we uncover the kind and gentle soul that he was and the prophetic work he made before his death on 9/11.

Supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.