I Hope This Finds You Well is a new in-progress multidisciplinary work by artist Samora Pinderhughes that responds to the testimonials of those harmed by incarceration, policing, and detention.

In moving between story and song, Samora Pinderhughes and his ensemble imagine a world that supports vulnerability — an artistic celebration of resilience and repair. I Hope This Finds You Well envisions to be a portal into a society not built on perpetuating cruelty, domination, and punishment. It answers the questions: How do we survive in America? How do we support each other? What if we built a world around community care?

About the Artist:
Samora Pinderhughes is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and filmmaker known for striking vulnerability and carefully crafted, radically honest art. He is also known for using his art to examine sociopolitical issues and fight for change. His work as it stands today broadly encompasses sound, performance, installation, sculpture, and social practice. His artwork is renowned for its emotionality, its honesty about difficult and complex topics, and its careful details in word, image, and sound. As an artist, Pinderhughes’ goal is that people will LIVE DIFFERENTLY after experiencing what he makes — that it will affect how they think, how they act, how they relate to others, how they consider their daily relationships to their country and their world. The New York Times described Pinderhughes as a “visionary” who “turn(s) the experience of living in community inside-out, revealing all its personal detail and tension, and giving voice to registers of pain that are commonly shared but not often articulated.”

Pinderhughes has collaborated with artists across boundaries including Herbie Hancock, Glenn Ligon, Sara Bareilles, Common, Robert Glasper, Simone Leigh, Daveed Diggs, Kyle Abraham, Titus Kaphar, and his mentor, Anna Deavere Smith. Pinderhughes is also the Artistic & Executive Director of The Healing Project, a community arts organization that creates narrative change and collective healing in partnership with individuals impacted by structural violence to build a world based around healing rather than punishment.

Prices include all fees, which are waived for MASS MoCA members.

Produced by Pomegranate Arts