SPECIAL SCREENING AND CONVERSATION WITH ZAWE ASHTON AND CATHERINE MORRIS
METROGRAPH, NEW YORK
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2026 | 3:45 PM
We are excited to share an upcoming special program dedicated to Lorraine O’Grady, presented by Metrograph in collaboration with the Lorraine O’Grady Trust and Mariane Ibrahim Gallery on Sunday, November 15, in New York. The evening brings together never-before-seen footage of O’Grady’s performance Rivers, First Draft (1982/2026) and Meeting Lorraine O’Grady (2017), a short film commissioned by Tate Modern and directed by filmmaker and actor Zawe Ashton.
Originally performed in Central Park in 1982, Rivers, First Draft unfolds as a “collage-in-space,” bringing together Caribbean and New England heritage through simultaneous actions exploring three ages and aspects of the self. In Meeting Lorraine O’Grady, Ashton visits the artist at her New York home, where they discuss race, gender, and the challenges faced by Black women artists in an often-segregated art world, before revisiting the site of the original performance.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with Zawe Ashton and Catherine Morris, Sackler Family Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art and co-curator of O’Grady’s 2021 retrospective, Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And, at the Brooklyn Museum.
