Atlanta, Georgia
High Museum of Art
Talk:
Franklin Sirmans
On Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 7:00 pm Franklin Sirmans, director of Pérez Art Museum Miami, will discuss celebrated artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's focus on the
psychological and spiritual terrain of the American South, the subject
of his 2014 book.
Baltimore, Maryland
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| Untitled, Lois Mailou Jones (1905‐1998), Oil on Canvas, 24” x 20” framed, Ruth and Sam Williams Collection |
This gallery talk, The Intelligent Collector, will be presented by Myrtis Bedolla on Sunday, April 17, 2016 from 4:00 - 6:00 pm. Myrtis
Bedolla, art adviser and curator, will demystify the collecting process and
offer insider tips on building a collection that is culturally rich,
aesthetically beautiful and financially rewarding.
The gallery talk is one of the opening events accompanying the upcoming exhibition, Art of the Collectors V, which is on view April 17 - June 11, 2016. Art of the Collectors V explores the role of the collector in preserving
culture and building legacy through art collecting and giving. Featured
are works created by prominent and lesser known artists, along with
African art. Offerings include rare paintings, original prints,
photographs and sculptures held in private hands for generations, and
important works of art from institution holdings.
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Cranbrook Art Museum
Talk:
Valerie Cassel Oliver,
Radical Presence: Black Artists and Contemporary Art
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| Photo by Eric Hester |
Valerie Cassel Oliver, Senior Curator Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, will present an overview of her curatorial practice over the last decade. The presentation will highlight a series of exhibitions that have made
visible the presence and impact of black artists working in a variety of
media from abstract painting to film and video to performance art and
beyond. Radical Presence: Black Artists and Contemporary Art is scheduled for Monday, May 2, 2016 at 6:00 pm at Cranbrook Art Museum.
Charlottesville, Virginia
The Paramount Theater
Artist Talk:
Sheila Pree Bright: 1960Now
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| Image © Sheila Pree Bright |
This Artist Talk: Sheila Pree Bright: 1960Now will be held at the Paramount Theater at 215 West Main Street on Saturday, June 18, 2016 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Bright’s current and most ambitious project to date, 1960Now, examines race, gender and generational divides, to raise awareness of millennial perspectives on civil and human rights. 1960Now is a photographic portrait series of emerging young leaders affiliated with the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Chicago, Illinois
Art Institute of Chicago
Free Clinics in the Art of Jacob Lawrence
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| Jacob Lawrence, Free Clinic, 1938. H Karl and Nancy von Maltitz Endowment. |
This lecture is a part of the American Art Up Close lecture series at the Art Institute of Chicago; it will be held on Thursday, May 26, 2016 from 6:00 - 7:00 pm. Tanya Sheehan,
Colby College, will address public health and medical care in urban America
as depicted in modernist Jacob Lawrence’s art from the 1930s to the
1950s.
Art Institute of Chicago
Talk:
Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem
Exhibition curator Michal Raz-Russo provides a behind-the-scenes look at
the process of uncovering work from Parks and Ellison’s collaborations. This lecture will be held in Fullerton Hall on Thursday, June 30, 2016 from 6:00 - 7:30 pm.
Dallas, Texas
Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden
Artist Talk:
Sedrick Huckaby: Three Forbidden F Words: Faith, Family, and Fathers
The Artist Talk featuring Sedrick Huckaby will be held on Saturday, April 23, 2016 at 11:00 am. The artist will speak to his latest exhibition, Three Forbidden F Words: Faith, Family, and Fathers, on view at the Valley House Gallery through May 7, 2016. This exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, and drawings from
his studio, as well as prints and works on paper resulting from
residencies at the University of North Texas P.R.I.N.T. Press,
STUDIO-f at The University of Tampa, and the Amon Carter Museum of
American Art’s Davidson Family Fellowship.
Evanston, Illinois
Northwestern University
Black Feminist Futures Symposium
The Black Feminist Theory Reading Group "seeks to provide a platform for students to dialogue and
network with emerging and established scholars in the field of black
feminist theory, as well as encourage interdisciplinary conversations
around the future of black feminist thought and theory."
Black Feminist Futures, a two-day symposium that traces Black feminist
theory and praxis in and beyond the academy, will fill an institutional
void of Black feminist intellectual engagement and social networks at
Northwestern. Centering intergenerational Black feminist dialogue as a
critical intellectual and social force, sixteen leading scholars will
participate.
The Symposium will be held at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Drive, on May 20 and 21, 2016.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania
The 20th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Art will be held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on April 10 - 11, 2016.
Keynote Address:
April 10, 2016, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Structural Adjustment:Mapping, Geography, and the Visual Cultures of Blackness will be delivered by Steven Nelson, Professor of African and African American Art History, University of California, Los Angeles. The visual practices of artists Mark Bradford, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Houston Conwill, Moshekwa Langa, and Julie Mehretu who use mapping and geography in their works— are explored. Nelson will discuss how these artists reshape our understanding of African ancestry, notions of diaspora, and urban spaces.
Symposium:
April 11, 2016, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
This symposium presents current research by graduate students from Bryn Mawr
College; Pennsylvania State University; Princeton University; Rutgers: The
State University of New Jersey; Tyler School of Art, Temple University; University of Delaware; University of Maryland; and University of Pennsylvania.
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Wilmington, Delaware
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
2016 Gretchen Hupfel Symposium
The 2016 Gretchen Hupfel Symposium: Repositioning Blackness in Contemporary Art at The Delaware Contemporary Art (Wilmington, DE) will be held on Saturday, April 16, 2016. There are two sessions.
The Art Workshop will
be on Saturday, April 16, 2016 from 1:00 to 2:00 PM. Teaching Artist, Tia
Santana leads the Workshop and Discussion: Materiality and Narratives of
Our Ethnic Hair. Ms. Santana brings her own studio practice and work with
hair as a medium to the context of a workshop. Participants will explore the
materiality of hair as a creative medium and discuss cultural narratives
associated with ethnic hair.
The Symposium theme will be discussed 6:00 to 8:30 pm from the perspectives of practicing artists, educators, and critics. The
Delaware Contemporary’s 2016 Gretchen Hupfel Symposium will explore the
complexities of art creation from within both personal and
sociopolitical contexts, while considering the ongoing civil rights
movement of today.
Presenters:
Zoë Charlton is an accomplished visual artist and an
Associate Professor at American University in Washington, DC.
Jessica Lynne, Arts Critic and Co-founder of
ARTS.BLACK, is a Brooklyn-based writer and arts administrator. She
states, “ARTS.BLACK is a platform for art criticism from black
perspectives predicated on the belief that art criticism should be an
accessible dialogue - a tool through which we question, celebrate, and
talk back to the global world of contemporary art.”
Julie McGee has published widely on
contemporary African American art and South African art, with a
particular focus on artist and museum praxis. McGee joined the University of Delaware as an Associate Professor and Curator of African American art in 2008.
Jefferson Pinder is an accomplished
interdisciplinary artist and an Associate Professor at the School of the
Art Institute in Chicago. His work challenges
viewers to think critically about our highly polarized society by
exploring representations, visual tropes, and cultural symbolism.
