When:
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM CT
Where: Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh, 40 Arts Circle Drive , Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: Free
Contact:
Block Museum of Art
(847) 491-4000
Group: Block Museum of Art
Co-Sponsor:
Program of African Studies
Category: Fine Arts
Joy Bivins, Chicago History Museum curator and organizer of the recent exhibition, Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair; Maud Lavin, faculty member and cultural historian, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and Kathleen Bickford Berzock, the Block’s associate director of curatorial affairs and an expert on African art, will explore Wangechi Mutu’s work as a starting point for considering and challenging stereotypes around women and the body, blackness, and what it is to be African.