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April 16-17, 2010
Howard University
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.
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Friday, April 16, 2010
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Amour J. Blackburn Center, Howard University
General Admission: Free but registration is requested
Opening Lecture
Jacqueline Francis
Jacqueline Francis is an art historian specializing in U.S. art of the twentieth century and contemporary African Diaspora art. Dr. Francis teaches at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her articles and reviews have been published in Radical History Review, American Art, Third Text, and other journals.Her book, Race-ing Modernism: Malvin Gray Johnson, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Max Weber and “Racial Art” in America, is forthcoming from the University of Washington Press. She is also a co-editor of Romare Bearden: American Modernist, an anthology forthcoming from Yale University Press. She serves on the Board of Directors of the College Art Association, an international organization serving the visual arts community.
Keynote Address
Renee Cox
Renee Cox, photographer and mixed media artist, questions society and the roles of blacks and women with elaborate scenarios and imaginative visuals. Among the most controversial African American artists working today, Cox uses her work to celebrate and empower black womanhood and to critique societal stereotypes. In the guise of alter egos, “Yo Mama” and “Raje”, Cox challenges conceptions and conceits about race, religion, consumerism, and injustice. Her works have been shown at the Venice Biennale (1999), the Brooklyn Museum of Art exhibition, Committee to the Image: Contemporary Black Photographers (2001), and in the Jamaican Biennial (2007) where she won the Aaron Matalon Award.
Reception
5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Howard University Art Gallery
Annual Faculty Art Exhibition
Saturday, April 17, 2010
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Amour J. Blackburn Center, Howard University
James A. Porter Distinguished Lecture
Okwui Enwezor
Okwui Enwezor, writer, critic, editor, and curator, is the former Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at San Francisco Art Institute. He served as Artistic Director for Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (1998-2002), the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale (1996-1997), and the Artistic Director of Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla, in Seville, Spain. He has curated numerous exhibitions around the world and is a regular contributor to exhibition catalogues, anthologies, and journals. He is founder and editor of the critical art journal Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, published by the Africana Study Center, Cornell University. He is the author of several publications, including the most recent, Contemporary African Art Since 1980 (2009).
Benefit Gala
6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Reception
7:30 Dinner
Amour J. Blackburn Center, Howard University
Ticket required: $150
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