Former Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party will
discuss visual art and political communication with Graduate Graphic Design
students.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 12pm – 1pm
Ahmanson Forum, 1st Floor
9045 Lincoln Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
Artist
and activist Emory Douglas will speak to students at Otis College of Art and
Design as part of the Graduate Graphic Design program’s Visiting Artist Lecture
Series.
A major
force in the American Black Power movement, Emory Douglas was the Minister of
Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until its dissolution in the
early 1980s. His extensive body of work helped define the Black Panther Party’s
signature visual style, and is an iconic representation of the Party’s
struggles and accomplishments for nearly two decades.
Prolific
and politically astute, Douglas created work with powerful impact, serving the
Panther’s mission to improve the lives of African Americans by calling for
resistance, social change, and community service. Using inexpensive printing
technologies—including photostats and presstype, textures and patterns,
collaged and re-collaged drawings and photographs —Douglas produced posters,
pamphlets, and a weekly, two-color, heavily illustrated, tabloid-style
newspaper, The Black Panther.
The work
of Emory Douglas demonstrates the efficacy of visual art in political
communication. With a distinctive humanism, Douglas galvanized a community
ravaged by poverty and injustice by creating a visual projection of power for
people who felt powerless and victimized. In contrast to earlier social realist
political art, associated with the Work Projects Administration, that portrayed
poor people in a helpless state, Douglas projected respect and action through
his work, illustrating harsh conditions while underscoring the dignity of an
African-American community emerging from segregation and proudly fighting to
assert its rights to equality.
This
lecture is part of the Otis Graduate Graphic Design program’s annual Visiting
Artist Lecture Series, and is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of
Political Graphics.
About The Graduate Graphic Design Program
The MFA Graphic Design program at Otis is limited-residency. Students come
together for eight weeks each summer. To acquire an MFA they must complete
three summer sessions and two on-site or off-site sessions. Design Week kicks
off the summer sessions and powers students through the remaining seven weeks
of the program.
About Otis College of Art and Design
Founded in Los Angeles in 1918, Otis College of Art and Design prepares diverse
students of art and design to enrich the world through their creativity, their
skill, and their vision. The College offers an interdisciplinary education for
1200 full-time students, awarding BFA degrees in Advertising,
Architecture/Landscape/Interiors, Digital Media, Fashion Design, Illustration,
Graphic Design, Product Design, Painting, Photography, Sculpture/New Genres,
and Toy Design; and MFA degrees in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Public Practice,
and Writing. Continuing Education offers certificate programs as well as
personal and professional development courses. Additional information is
available at http://www.otis.edu.
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