UD's Foreman to present talk on 'Renderings: New Narratives' exhibition

9:22 a.m., Sept. 25, 2014--The University of Delaware’s P. Gabrielle Foreman will present a discussion on the exhibition Renderings: New Narratives and Reinterpretations from 12:30-1:15 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 15, at the Mechanical Hall Gallery.

The exhibition, which features a selection of prints from the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia, focuses on contemporary artists whose works question, define and reconsider the historic role of memory in image making.

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Viewed together, the works accent the multiple and varied ways in which the ritualized politics of remembering, a key cultural practice of African American and African Diaspora artists, may be visualized.

Foreman is the Ned B. Allen Professor of English with a joint appointment as professor in the Department of Black American Studies.

The talk is part of the University Museums’ Perspectives series and also of the Department of Black American Studies’ Black Studies: Every Day, Every Night program.

Perspectives is a series of informal afternoon discussions led by curators and invited faculty about the objects, exhibitions and ideas on display in University Museums galleries.

Scheduled for the lunch break, these varied, short and informal noontime talks offer an introduction to each exhibition as well as time for discussion.

For a flyer about the event, click here.