From June 2-29, New City Arts presents loss.nothing.memorial, an exhibition of work by Ashon Crawley. Join us on Friday, June 2 from 5-7:30PM for a First Friday exhibition opening. The artist will give an artist talk and reading from 7-7:30PM.

"loss.nothing.memorial." is an immersive sound and video installation, honoring the lives of musicians, singers, and choir directors from the Black Church tradition that died of AIDS complications between 1980-2005. Including songs, sermons, radio and video, Ashon Crawley wants visitors to consider and reckon with the past that is still present with us.

Ashon Crawley is professor of Religious Studies and African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. He is author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility and The Lonely Letters. He was a Yaddo fellow, a MacDowell interdisciplinary arts fellow, and a New City Arts Initiative Fellow. All his work is about otherwise possibility.