Walls of Respect: Norman Parish and the Parish Art Gallery, is a documentary film honoring the life, work, and legacy of artist and art dealer Norman Parish. Parish was a pioneering Black gallerist in Washington, DC where he highlighted artists from the African Diaspora in the 1990s through the 2010s. Early in his career he participated in the creation of a mural known as the Wall of Respect with a group of politically active Black artists who later co-founded the AfriCOBRA Black arts movement in Chicago at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. This film is executive produced and directed by Susan Ericsson of SME Media LLC.

After the film, join Norman Parish III, the artist’s son and film’s associate producer for a panel discussion featuring artist and AfriCOBRA co-founderWadsworth Jarrell; Rhonda K. Brown (artist; City of Cleveland Senior Strategist for Arts & Culture; and daughter of Malcolm and Ernestine Brown who opened the Malcolm Brown Gallery in Shaker Heights in 1980, the first for-profit African American gallery in the country); and David Ramsey, CEO/Lead Curator of Deep Roots Experience. Moderated by Deidre McPherson from Assembly for the Arts.

This program is presented as part of the Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival (GCUFF) in partnership with Assembly for the Arts and moCa.

TICKETS:

GCUFF VIP Producer Passholders receive free admission

moCa Members get 15% off

General Admission is $25

Artists admission for $10