Oct. 9: Wayne Craven Lecture
Kellie Jones of Columbia to deliver art history's Wayne Craven Lecture
2:18 p.m., Sept. 26, 2014--Kellie Jones of Columbia University will deliver the Wayne Craven Lecture, sponsored by the University of Delaware’s Department of Art History, at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 9, in 115 Purnell Hall.
Jones is an associate professor in art history and archaeology and the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia.
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Her research interests include African American and African Diaspora artists, Latino/a and Latin American artists, and issues in contemporary art and museum theory.
In her lecture, “Crisscrossing the World: Los Angeles Artists and the Global Imagination,” Jones will discuss the role of African American migration in addition to multimedia work and performance by the African American artists David Hammons, John Outterbridge, Noah Purifoy, Senga Nengudi and Charles White, who lived and worked in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s.
In Jones’ words, “The talk elucidates how artists translate such experiences into form, how they transform what they find in this world into what they would like it to be. It considers art’s conversations with the dislocation and cultural reinvention of migration, its materials of loss and of possibility, as well as the inscription of the new in style and practice.”
The talk is part of a current book project, Taming the Freeway and Other Acts of Urban HIP-notism: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 19070s, forthcoming from the MIT Press. Her 2011 book, Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art, was named one of the top art books of 2011 by Publishers Weekly.
In 2013, Jones was awarded a Creative Capital Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and a term as scholar-in-residence at the Terra Foundation for American Art in Europe in Giverny, France.
Jones has also worked extensively as a curator for over three decades. Her exhibition, “Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980,” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, was named one of the best exhibitions of 2011 and 2012 by Artforum, and best thematic show nationally by the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).
Currently, she is the co-curator of “Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the 1960s,” now on view at the Hood Museum of Art.
This lecture honors Wayne Craven, Henry Francis du Pont Professor Emeritus of Art History. Craven was among the pioneer scholars of his generation and helped establish the field of American art as a legitimate subject of scholarly investigation.
The talk is also the second of this year’s Art History Graduate Student Lecture Series.
Registration is not required but is recommended, and can be completed at this website. Parking will be available in the Trabant University Center garage.
The Department of Art History’s 2014-15 Graduate Student Lecture Series is organized by Michele Frederick and Jeff Richmond-Moll (co-chairs), Kiernan Acquisto-Axeloons, Caitlin Hutchison, Margarita Karasoulas, Galina Olmsted, Emily Shartrand, and Spencer Wigmore. The faculty adviser for the lecture series is Lauren Petersen.