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Felandus Thames

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Artist | JSU | Yale MFA | Harpo Prize & Louis Comfort Tiffany Award Recipient #felandusthames #felandus

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Just finished a new work for a forthcoming the exhibition entitled “Pryor plays America” at the Peoria Riverfront Museum. Deets to come..

Shoutout to the team at @riverfrontmuseum for engaging me with this project ( Everly Davis, Bill Conger, and John Morris, CEO). Thank you to @pryorhistories for agreeing to name the piece. Please go grab her new book, “Something We Said.”

#richardpryor #peoriariverfrontmuseum #felandusthames by @felandus

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Today my lastest work arrived and was installed at it’s home, the FloGris (Florence Griswold Museum). Thank you to the team at the museum and John Mills for providing critical insight while lending voice to the African American presence in New England.

The new work is currently on view at the Flogris and can be viewed during Friday's private event for Yale Alumni for photographers, William Williams. To attend this event, please contact the Yale School of Art to register. taken in Florence Griswold Museum by @felandus

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I just completed this piece for a forthcoming exhibition at SFMoMA entitled “Get in the Game,” a collaborative effort by museum Katy Siegel and Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher with guest curator the brilliant Seph Rodney. I completed the piece yesterday after 4 months and over 600 hours of work. It is entirely made of beads and is the largest work I’ve produced in his series of works.

Along with creating this monumental work I had the privilege of interviewing a long time supporter of the arts and a friend, Elliot Perry for the exhibition catalog. We had a wide ranging conversation about collection building strategies and the unique challenges Black collectors face when artists ascend to the bluechip level.

The exhibition opens to the public on October 19th and will travel to several museums over the next two years. Hope you are able to see it and grab a copy of the book from Amazon.

#getinthegame #sfmoma #felandusthames #newwork #blackart #alleniverson #contemporaryart #elliotperry taken in SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by @felandus

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#studiotime taken in Chicago by @felandus

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Feeling like fall. Hope yall had a productive summer.

📸 @natalias_arttt taken in NYC by @felandus

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Felandus Thames’s She did what she could (2025) honors the life and legacy of Dorie Ladner, a civil rights activist, community organizer, and social worker who played a significant role in the movement for racial justice. Composed of thousands of hair beads arranged into a vibrant portrait, the work transforms each individual bead into a building block of memory and recognition. Part of The Aldrich Decennial: I am what is around me, the piece reflects Thames’s ongoing exploration of how material, history, and collective remembrance can preserve the stories of those who shaped the world around us.

On view through January 10, 2027.

@felandus @amysmithstewart @cmonachino by @felandus

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Cassandra once told me that this is her favorite image of herself, so this is how I will always remember her. RIP to my homegirl Cassandra Wilson, a friend, an inspiration, and a huge supporter of my work. Cassandra will be missed. ASE! taken in Jackson, Mississippi by @felandus

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This weekend is our last chance to see the exhibition “Get in the Game” at the PAMM! We’re so grateful to everyone who came to the exhibition at SF MoMA ( @sfmoma ), Crystal Bridges ( @crystalbridgesmuseum ), and the Perez Art Museum Miami ( @pamm ). Also, we want to thank the curators, Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Seph Rodney, and Katy Siegel, for their amazing work in putting together this incredible show. Lastly thank you to everyone who tagged me in your posts as the piece traveled.

I’ve listed some of the exhibition’s main highlights below, and sincerely hope you understand if I didn’t include you in the photo credits.

#pamm #sfmoma #gametimesessions #getinthegame taken in Pérez Art Museum Miami by @felandus

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Summer movements..

1) My new pup, Carmen
2) Perez Art Museum in Miami
3) Peoria Riverfront Museum “Joyful Resistance”
4) Bernard Lumpkin at The Aldrich Museum
5) Conversation with Everly Davis the Peoria Riverfront Museum
6) Exhibition walk through with Everly Davis at PRM
7) Gathering would good people a few days ago.
8) John Jennings at Off Beat back in Jackson aka The Crib
9) Preston Jackson’s sculpture of Richard Pryor in Peoria
10) My awesome son, Miles at the Aldrich Museum! by @felandus

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I was flipping through old photos and stumbled upon this one of me with two incredible artists, my brothers from another mother, @aaron_gilbert_studio and @hector_dionicio_mendoza back in 2013. Looking forward to getting back out West to hang out with you all. Please checkout their work (Aaron’s Tribeca Studio).
#throwback taken in NYC by @felandus

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Sharing a newly published article which covers the “Get in the Game” exhibition and “Game Time” sessions ( @gametimesessions ) at the Perez Art Museum in Miami ( @pamm ). Thank you @jorge.ottati of Aventura Americana Magazine for the interview. You really captured the essences of the work and my intentions as an artist.

For the non Spanish-speaking people reading this post, here is a brief translated excerpt from the article:

“After touring the exhibition we were able to talk with one of the panelists, the artist Felandus Thames, born in Jackson, Mississippi, but lived for years in Connecticut. This exhibition presented a large portrait of basketball player Allen Iverson that, at first glance, looked like a photograph or a painting. However, when approaching the work it was discovered that it was neither of the two, but a piece completely built with beads, assembled with enormous precision. In the work of Felandus, the portrait ceases to be a simple representation to become an act of historical reconstruction. Its pieces, meticulously crafted with beads, operate at the intersection between memory, materiality and diaspora. In the history of slavery, people were exchanged for accounts that functioned as currency, an element present in both Native American and African American cultures. He also related photography to the elites and colonial power. His intention was to use materials that would question that story and allow them to reinterpret and give a new meaning to the images. Felandus uses accounts because they connect the history of slavery, indigenous and Afro-descendant traditions, and his intention to critically reinterpret historical images and narratives.”

#felandusthames #getinthegame #gametime

(Link in the bio) taken in Pérez Art Museum Miami by @felandus

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