April 16-17, 2010
Howard University

Risk Takers, Rule Breakers, and Innovators in African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora. During the three-day program, art historians, artists, critics, and interdisciplinary scholars  will examine the theme—FEARLESS—by focusing on issues and ideas that reveal how this drive, impulse, and attitude often propel artists to break the rules, invent new aesthetics, and resist reductive categories that seek to marginalize them and their work. Papers and presentations will interrogate and re-contextualize the critical roles of courageous resistance and willful exuberance in spite of political, economic, social realities.    Download the Program flier