Panel, Screening

Public Talks/Private Thoughts: Scholars Respond to Creating Their Own Images

Nov 11, 2004

4:30–7:00pm ET

Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Kellen Auditorium

A panel discussion on the art and image of Black women, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Creating Their Own Image.

The exhibition features paintings, sculpture, photographs, and mixed-media work by 25 contemporary African-American women artists, including nine selections from the New School University’s art collection. Among them are works by Emma Amos, Chakaia Booker, Elizabeth Catlett, Renée Cox, Pamela Jennings, Adrian Piper, Faith Ringgold, Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker, and Carrie Mae Weems. On view at the Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York, until February 1, 2005.

Moderator 
Richard Green, Assistant Chair of Critical Studies, Parsons School of Design

Participants
Lisa E. Farrington, Core Faculty, Critical Studies, Parsons School of Design, and exhibition curator
Wendy Walters, Assistant Professor of English, the Rhode Island School of Design
Margo Humphrey, Associate Professor of Printmaking and Drawing, the University of Maryland, and artist included in the exhibition

This panel is presented in collaboration with Parsons School of Design, Parsons Department of Critical Studies, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School.