LECTURE: "In the Arms of the Negress"

Huey Copeland photographed by Steve Reinke.

Presented by Huey Copeland, Associate Professor of Art History, Northwestern University

Thursday, March 6, 2014, 7:00 – 8:00PM

EVANSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

Community Meeting Room

1703 Orrington Avenue

Evanston, IL

How have black women been represented visually? How have they represented themselves? And how have those images shaped our understanding of what, in fact, constitutes representation? To answer these questions, art historian Huey Copeland examines the negress, a key figure in Western art from the nineteenth century to the present. Join us as he wends his way through a range of periods, places, and visual artists to narrate a transnational history of modern contemporary art.

The Evanston Northwestern Humanities Lecture Series is an ongoing collaboration between The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and the Evanston Public Library, whereby Northwestern University humanities faculty share their research with members of the Evanston community.

Evanston Northwestern Humanities Lecture Series

LISTEN UP: Gordon Skinner Speaks Art at Yale University

Gordon Skinner, Jesus Piece (Self-Portrait at 27)

Artist closes out solo exhibit Hard Works with discussion   

Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 7 - 9pm

AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER AT YALE UNIVERSITY

211 Park Street

New Haven, CT

Gordon Skinner will give an artist talk on the works included in his exhibit Hard Works on view at the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale University. The event will be moderated by artists and current Yale MFA students Mario Moore and Wesley Chavez and is preceded by the screening of a short documentary about Skinner.

Skinner’s work is reminiscent of a tradition and movement known as "The Blues Impulse.” This tradition includes a long list of artists practicing in various mediums who have transformed their extenuating circumstances and hardships into extraordinary levels of visual content and artistic expression.  

Hard Works touches on the work ethic required of artist's to create a body of quality work, which in Skinner’s case, means working three jobs while simultaneously carving out time to paint. The result is not only an honest expression of an artist painting the world as he sees it, but also meant to inspire others to work hard in pursuit of their personal passions.

Skinner has been featured as a guest on television programs CT Style and Better CT, featured articles by Hearst Publication and The New Haven Independent, having his work featured in The New York Times as well as being the subject of a final thesis paper for a Yale student. His work has been exhibited in contemporary art galleries in Connecticut as well as NYC’s annual Outsider Art Fair in Times Square. In addition to being the subject of a documentary by Take Notice Productions about his art, his paintings were also featured in a magazine photo shoot with celebrity fashion designers Coco and Breezy. 

YouTube: Stolen I.D.: Fragmented, Colonized and Lost - Documentary with painter Gordon Skinner

LISTEN UP: Thelma Golden Speaks Art in St. Louis

CAM WELCOMES VISIONARY CURATOR AS 2012 SUSAN SHERMAN ANNUAL DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER  

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2012

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM 

CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM ST LOUIS
3750 Washington Boulevard
St. Louis, MO

This year CAM welcomes Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem. While at the Studio Museum, Golden has organized many notable exhibitions, including Chris Ofili: Afro Muses 1995–2005; Black Romantic; Freestyle; Frequency; Glenn Ligon: Stranger; Martin Puryear: The Cane Project; and Isaac Julien: Vagabondia. In 2010, President Barack Obama appointed Golden to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House.

Golden’s critically acclaimed exhibitions at the Studio Museum have established that institution as a leading center for contemporary African-American art, and she has promoted and encouraged many young and emerging practitioners in the field. CAM Director Lisa Melandri calls her “one of the most important and unique voices in the global art world today.”

During a TED talk in February 2009, Golden described her work as an opportunity to provoke a new dialogue about race and culture. “The privilege I’ve had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works… but what I’ve discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition—to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other.”

Golden began her career at the Studio Museum in 1987 before joining the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1988. In a decade at the Whitney, she organized numerous groundbreaking exhibitions, including the 1993 Biennial and Black Male, and served as Director of the Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris. She returned to the Studio Museum in 2000 as Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs and was named Director and Chief Curator in 2005.

The Susan Sherman Annual Distinguished Speaker Series is designed to bring scholarship and art commentary of the highest caliber to St. Louis. This program connects audiences with today’s most relevant artists, curators, designers, and scholars. Past speakers have included Michael Kimmelman, Maya Lin, Glenn Lowry, Jeff Rosenheim, Jerry Saltz, Rob Storr, and Richard Armstrong

This lecture is free and open to the public. Cash bar.

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