Leigh forms The Free People’s Medical Clinic

Simone Leigh (Critic, Ceramics) worked with Rashida Bumbray and Nato Thompson to create The Free People’s Medical Clinic, a project commissioned by Creative Time. FPMC is part of a larger project called JazzFunkGodMedicine: Black Radical Brooklyn. The installation is up every weekend for through October 12th. The clinic offers acupuncture, yoga, dance massage, well-women care, HIV testing, Obamacare navigation by Brooklyn based practitioners.

Leigh also received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, and was a facilitator in CCA Lagos’ Asiko School, Dakar, Senegal, May 18th – 24th, on “ASIKO IN DAKAR, A History–And a Future, for Alternative Arts Education in Africa.”

Other recent exhibitions of Leigh’s work include:

AS WE WERE SAYING at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space curated by Claire Barliant
The Shape of Things at Jack Shainman Gallery, June 5 – July 25
Dak’art 2014: The 11th Biennial of Contemporary African Art organized by Elise Atangana, Abdelkader Damani and Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi
but that joke isn’t funny anymore…, May 1 – June 7th, Tilton Gallery, organized by Ryan McKenna
Gone South, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, April 4 – May 31rst, organized by Stuart Horodner