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Counterpoint Project
Counterpoint Project: In 2018, Patrick Earl Hammie and Endalyn T. Outlaw debuted Counterpoint Project
at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City. This project built on their public
conversation on disciplinary mastery, and provided space for them to partner with six cross-generational
ballerinas, a clothing designer, a documentarian, and MoBBallet to develop artwork, performances, a
panel discussion, and a web archive that honors the ongoing contributions of Black dancers and artists,
and inspires the curiosity in and routes for young people in their creative pursuits. Post-pandemic, they
plan to travel the project to London and Brazil.
Patrick Earl Hammie
About
Patrick Earl Hammie is an interdisciplinary visual artist—painter, printmaker, illustrator, curator—and educator who examines personal and shared Black experiences, and offers stories that expand notions o self, community, and others today. His works are in the collections of the David C. Driskell Center, John Michael Kohler Art Center, JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Kinsey Institute Collections, KohlerCompany Collection, Lawrence University, Purdue University, University of Illinois, and William BentonMuseum of Art. He has exhibited in Germany, India, South Africa, and the United States, at venues that include California African American Museum, The Drawing Center, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Madlozi Art Gallery, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, BoBartlett Center, and the Zhou B. Art Center. He is the inaugural recipient of the Alice C. Cole ’42 Fellowship from Wellesley College, and was an artist-in-residence at the John Michael Kohler Art Center. He has been supported by fellowships and grants from the Mellon Foundation, Joyce Foundation, Midwestern Voices and Visions, Puffin Foundation, Tanne Foundation, the states of Illinois and Connecticut, and other private foundations. He is currently an Associate Professor and Chair of StudioArt in the School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Endalyn T. Outlaw
About
Endalyn T. Outlaw (née Taylor), dancer, choreographer, and educator, is the dean of the School of dance at UNCSA. She has held the positions of
director of Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) School in New York — a company she joined in 1984, becoming a principal dancer in 1993 — and director of the Cambridge Summer Art Institute in Massachusetts. Her extensive administrative, artistic and academic career is steeped in ballet pedagogy and she has created an eclectic body of choreographic works. Outlaw excels at restaging ballets, having performed many of the classics and having worked with luminaries in the field including DTH founder Arthur Mitchell, British-American ballet dancer and choreographer Frederick Franklin, director and choreographer of LINES Ballet Alonzo King, American dancer and choreographer Agnes de Mille, and director and choreographer of Garth Fagan Dance and “The Lion King,” Garth Fagan. She has performed on Broadway and stages all over the world, including an original cast member of Tony Award-winning Broadway productions of “The Lion King,” “Aida,” and “Carousel.” Prior to joining UNCSA, she served six years at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she taught ballet and musical theater as an associate professor of Dance. In 2020 she was appointed the Dean’s Fellow for Black Arts Research.