Save the Date: A Symposium on African American Women in the Visual Arts
Posted on | November 6, 2009 | No Comments
The David C. Driskell Center and The University of Maryland University College Arts Program announce the upcoming symposium in 2010
“Autobiography/Performance/Identity A Symposium on African American and African Diasporan Women in the Visual Arts”
Friday, March 5 and Saturday, March 6, 2010
“Autobiography/Performance/Identity” will take a close look at some of the themes and issues that black female artists have been engaging over the latter part of the twentieth century. The symposium will address critical issues of performativty and autobiography in the work black female artists from North America, the Caribbean and Africa.
Speakers include:
Lorraine O’Grady, Performance Artist
Keynote Speaker
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Uncontrollable Physicality, Performativity and the Black Female Body: Topsy, Josephine Baker and Kara Walker
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
En, Acting Others: Exploring Biography in Identity Performance
Cherise Smith, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
The Arts of Healing
Lisa Gail Collins, Ph.D., Vassar College
Autobiography in the work of Contemporary African Artists: Marasela, Kure, Essaydi
Christa Clarke, Ph.D., The Newark Museum
Andrea Chung’s Cutouts: Photography and Rememory in the Caribbean
Krista Thompson, Northwestern University
For more information on the program please visit the Symposium website:
http://www.umuc.edu/art/diasporan_symposium/index.shtml
Registration information is forthcoming and will be posted to the website.
David C. Driskell Center
University of Maryland
1214 Cole Student Activities Building
College Park, MD 20742
driskellcenter@umd.edu
301-314-2615 (office)
301-314-0679 (fax)
Tags: Cherise Smith > Christa Clarke > David C. Driskell Center > Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw > Krista Thompson > Lisa Gail Collins > Lorraine O'Grady > Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
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