1:59 p.m., Oct. 6, 2009----The University of Delaware Black American Studies Program's fall semester brown bag lunch lecture series will continue with a presentation by Robyn Phillips-Pendleton, associate professor of art and visual communications at UD, from 12:15 to 1:10 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 13, in Room 206 of the Trabant University Center.

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Phillips-Pendleton will speak on the topic “Conceptual Imagery in One Woman's Work: Dreams, Illusions and Controversy."

“Illustrators conceptualize and create images that represent an idea or a story. These images accentuate textual information -- a story, poem or newspaper article -- by providing a visual representation,” she said. “The conceptual imagery in my paintings and illustrations can be dreamlike and imaginative, and sometimes disturbing. The imagery seeks to provoke human expression and emotion through the visual articulation of ideas.”

Phillips-Pendleton said her work “discusses social, racial, and gender concepts” and that her “medium of expression has changed recently to accommodate the fluidity of these thematic concepts, and their accompanying metaphoric imagery, in a compositional space. It is here where I find my research and exploration the most challenging.”

Future lectures, also to be held at 12:15 p.m. in Room 206 of the Trabant University Center, are scheduled:

Nov. 13: "The Drugs Violence-Nexus among Deviant Adolescents: America's Drug War versus Dutch Harm Reduction Policy," Lana Harrison, professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, UD.

Dec. 7: "Street Life and Fatherhood: How Black Men in the Streets of Harlem Conceptualize Notions of Fatherhood,” Yasser Payne, assistant professor, Black American Studies Program, UD.