Event Details
Friday, March 5, 2010
David C. Driskell Center
University of Maryland, College Park
Saturday, March 6, 2010
UMUC Inn and Conference Center
Adelphi, MD
Save the Date:
Friday, March 5–Saturday, March 6, 2010
University of Maryland University College (UMUC) and the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at University of Maryland, College Park, announce
Autobiography/Performance/Identity:
A Symposium on African American and African Diasporan Women in the Visual Arts
Presentations
Leading scholars will present on African diasporan women in art, with topics to include:
Keynote
Lorraine O'Grady, Performance Artist
Uncontrollable Physicality, Performativity and the Black Female Body: Topsy, Josephine Baker and Kara Walker
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
En-Acting Others: Exploring Biography in Identity Performance
Cherise Smith, PhD, University of Texas at Austin
The Arts of Healing
Lisa Gail Collins, PhD, Vassar College
Andrea Chung’s Cutouts: Photography and Rememory in the Caribbean
Krista Thompson, PhD, Northwestern University
Autobiography in the Work of Contemporary African Artists: Marasela, Kure, Essaydi
Christa Clarke, PhD, The Newark Museum
Further information will be distributed over the coming weeks. Please watch this space for more details.
Sponsors
- The symposium and activities are co-sponsored by University of Maryland University College and the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park.