
Jeannette Rodríguez Píneda and MoMA staff lead an early morning Slow Looking session focused on the work of artist Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, on view in Gallery 404: Calligraphic Abstraction.
Jeannette Rodríguez Píneda is a queer, afro-indigenous visual storyteller and education designer whose practice weaves together ethnobotany and plant-based photographic processes. Rodríguez Píneda’s work explores the interplay of reconstructed narratives, memory, permanence, Taíno spirituality, and postcolonial trauma. With a life practice deeply rooted in creativity as ancestral knowledge, they believe in a somatic understanding gained through the process of creation. Their pedagogical praxis connects the spheres of art history, decolonial epistemologies, inner development, museum education, and curriculum design. Past and ongoing collaborations include the Dia Art Foundation, The Museum of Modern Art, the Queens Museum, Recess Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Storm King Arts Center, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. Rodríguez Píneda is an active advisory member for the New England Teaching Artist Collective, a steering member for the Youth Organizing Culture Change Fund, and founder of Movimiento, an initiative to strengthen BIPOC connection to land.
Registration
Register for Slow Looking on Tuesday, December 12, at 8:00 a.m.
If you can’t attend in person, you can register for Slow Looking at Home on Thursday, December 14, at 6:00 p.m. Slow Looking at Home takes place via Zoom.
Accessibility
There will be verbal descriptions for all images. A PDF of the presentation is available in advance upon request. Live CART captioning will be available. American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation is available for public programs upon request with two weeks’ advance notice. MoMA will make every effort to provide accommodation for requests made with less than two weeks’ notice. Please contact [email protected] to make a request for these accommodations.
About Slow Looking
There is no one way to experience, connect with, and understand art. Slow Looking is an opportunity for people to gather, slow down, and experience one work of art for a set period of time. Our time together may consist of guided visualization, slow description, collective interpretation, storytelling, writing, movement, and making personal connections. You will be invited to share your observations, thoughts, and personal responses, and we ask you to welcome and notice the perspectives of others. All invitations are always optional. Our intention is to offer a welcoming space for a wide-ranging, international, and inclusive public to experience and respond to art together. We extend a direct invitation to individuals and groups whose perspectives have not been traditionally valued or made visible by dominant institutions and histories. In all our public programs, we encourage those gathered to respect the lived experiences of others and to practice cultural humility. No experience or expertise is required; you already have everything you need to participate.
Slow Looking is part of the initiative Artful Practices for Well-Being, which offers ideas for connectedness and healing through art.
The Adobe Foundation is proud to support equity, learning, and creativity at MoMA.
Access and Community Programs are supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
Major funding is provided by Volkswagen of America, the Agnes Gund Education Endowment Fund for Public Programs, The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art Endowment for Educational Programs, the Jeanne Thayer Young Scholars Fund, and the Annual Education Fund.