New Scholarship in African American Art History
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Roosevelt House
47-49 East 65th Street New York, NY 10065Description
New Scholarship in African American Art History
The 2018 Evelyn Kranes Kossak Symposium
In conjunction with the exhibition Acts of Art and Rebuttal in 1971 at Hunter College’s Leubsdorf Gallery, the Department of Art and Art History is hosting a day-long symposium devoted to recent scholarship in African-American Art History. Acts of Art and Rebuttal revisits the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition’s stance against Whitney Museum’s Contemporary Black Artists in America show, and the exhibition they helped organize in response at Acts of Art, a small, artist-run gallery in Greenwich Village. The Acts of Art exhibition Artists in Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum: Black Artists in Rebuttal spoke to issues of identity, visibility, and the politics of representation. Those issues continue to engage both critical art histories of African American Art in the postwar period, and current art practice.
Participants:
LeRonn P. Brooks, assistant professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York
Bridget Cooks, associate professor in the Department of African American Studies and Department of Art History at the University of California Irvine
Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Cheryl Finley, associate professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University
Cherise Smith, chair and associate professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, and Executive Director of the Galleries at Black Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Tobias Wofford, assistant professor in Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University
The symposium is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.