Name: I Hope This Finds You Well
Start: 2026-02-01T19:00
Location: Studio

Performance

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Samora Pinderhughes. The Healing Project. 2023. Performed at Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, February 10, 2023. Photo: Lawrence Sumulong. Courtesy of the artist

I Hope This Finds You Well (2025–26) brings original musical compositions together with video, audio testimonials, musicians, and a choir to examine the effects of incarceration while celebrating resilience, repair, and resistance. This work-in-progress performance expands on Samora Pinderhughes’s experimentation with the interview as a medium for storytelling, featuring the voices of narrators from across 15 US states impacted by incarceration, detention, policing, and other systems of violence. I Hope This Finds You Well moves between story and song, envisioning a world built around healing rather than punishment.

If the event is sold out, there will be a first-come, first-served standby line beginning 30 minutes prior to the start of the performance. The Sunday matinee performance on February 1 is included with Museum admission, but capacity is limited and advance registration is required.

Performance credits
Director, piano, and voice: Samora Pinderhughes
Guitar and voice: Elliott Skinner
Guitar: Rafiq Bhatia
Bass: Joshua Crumbly
Flute: Elena Pinderhughes
Voice and vocal arranger: Nio Levon
Voice: Nia Drummond, Jehbreal Muhammad Jackson, Nina Moffitt, and Dani Murcia
Narrators: Roosevelt “Bliss” Arrington, Dante Clark, Lawrence Dahu Harris, Ginale Harris, Sharen Hewitt, Michelle Jones, Keith LaMar, Peter Mukuria aka Pitt Panther, Sam Vaughn, and Cyril Walrond
String quartet: Argus Quartet
Dramaturg: Jocelyn Clarke
Movement Director: Amanda Krische
Stage Manager: Erica Schnitzer
Consulting Producer: Pomegranate Arts

All songs were composed by Samora Pinderhughes, except an untitled excerpt by Elliott Skinner, “Murderer’s Home” by Jimpson & Group, and the traditional spiritual “Been in the Storm.”

I Hope This Finds You Well was developed in part through residencies at ArtYard in Frenchtown, NJ, and MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA.

This performance accompanies Samora Pinderhughes: Call and Response.
Artist and performer bios

Past events

Sun, Feb 1, 7:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor 4, Studio

The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio
Sun, Feb 1, 1:00 p.m.

Followed by a conversation with the artist

MoMA, Floor 4, Studio

The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio
Sat, Jan 31, 8:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor 4, Studio

The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio
Thu, Jan 29, 8:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor 4, Studio

The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Studio

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