Coffee @ Ten: Art of Self

Senghor will discuss the importance of self-portraiture in his artistic practice. Artists yield to their own personal growth when they engage in healthy self-reflection and evaluation through their art.

Senghor Reid earned a BFA from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI); a Masters of Teaching in Art Education from Wayne State University (Detroit, MI) and attended the internationally recognized Marathon Program at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (NY, NY). He is currently Chair of the Fine Arts Department at Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School (Bloomfield Hills, MI) and is a National Board Certified Visual Arts Educator. Reid is a practicing visual artist. He has received many awards including the Kresge Foundation's, Kresge Arts in Detroit Visual Artist Fellowship prize, the prestigious Governor's Award for Emerging Artist (Michigan), and a Michigan Regional Emmy Award for Best Documentary (Cultural). Reid's work has been exhibited in the U.S. and abroad in galleries and museums including the Embassy of the United States in Paris, Cranbrook Art Museum, Muskegon Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Kentler International Drawing Space in New York, St. Catharine Museum in Canada and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City. His work is in many private, public, and corporate art collections.