A Metta Prayer: Film Screening and Conversation with Jacolby Satterwhite
Friday, March 21 | Doors at 6:00 p.m. | Program 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Join the USC School of Visual Arts and Design in welcoming internationally renowned artist and Columbia native Jacolby Satterwhite to the CMA. Following a screening of his film A Metta Prayer (21 minutes), Satterwhite joins in conversation with members of USC faculty and the Columbia arts community including Chaz Evans, Willie Lee Kinard II, and Michaela Pilar Brown. Free.
Commissioned in 2023 for the Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Jacolby Satterwhite: A Metta Prayer constructs a digital space that represents love, joy, and resilience. Satterwhite (b. 1986) draws inspiration from the Buddhist Metta prayer to build a narrative that rebels against the conventions of commercial video games. A soundtrack produced by the artist pulses with energy, providing the video with its driving beat.
Satterwhite is an interdisciplinary artist celebrated for a conceptual practice addressing crucial themes of ritual, fantasy, freedom, and world-building through immersive installation, virtual reality, and digital media. His detailed animations and live action films make up an entirely unique cinematic universe.