Black Is, Black Ain't
April 20 – June 08, 2008
Opening Reception and Discussion
Location: The Renaissance Society Admission: free There will be a talk with exhibition artists Elizabeth Axtman and Thomas Johnson, moderated by exhibition curator Hamza Walker, from 5 - 6 pm.
Discussion
Franklin Sirmans and Hamza Walker
Location: The Renaissance Society Admission: free Race is ever-shifting terrain, as is the landscape of contemporary art. Combine the two and who knows where the discussion will go. Find out as Art Chicago and The Renaissance Society co-host a conversation between two dynamic curatorial voices.
Franklin Sirmans is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Menil Collection, Houston. Hamza Walker is Associate Curator and Director of Education at The Renaissance Society, and curator of this exhibition.
This event will take place in Kent Hall room 120. Kent Hall, 1020 E. 58th St., is on the main quadrangle of the University. FREE
Lecture
Race: Effects and Intents Jeffrey Grogger
Location: Swift Hall, Room 106, University of Chicago Admission: free In the social sciences race is a statistical entity inextricably linked to studies in poverty. Grogger?s work on welfare reform, immigration, crime, and racial profiling gives him a very complex picture of the forces which produce race in effects often removed from discrimination.
Jeffrey Grogger is the Irving Harris Professor
in Urban Policy in the Harris School of Public
Policy, The University of Chicago
This event will take place in Swift Hall, Room 106. Swift is the building directly east of Cobb Hall. FREE
Panel Discussion
Roots Revival Saidiya Hartman, Rick Kittles, moderated by Hamza Walker
Location: The Renaissance Society Admission: free To describe scholarship in African-American studies as robust is an understatement. Coming from diverse fields, these two outstanding scholars will give voice to the current vogue of African-American genealogical research from a scientific and a humanist perspective.
Saidiya Hartman, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, is most recently the author of Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2007). Rick Kittles, Associate Professor of Medicine at The University of Chicago, is founder of African Ancestry, Inc., the first business venture to offer dna-based genealogical mapping.
This event will take place in Swift Hall, Room 310 (3rd floor lecture hall). Swift is the building directly east of Cobb Hall. FREE
Poetry Reading
leadbelly Tyehimba Jess
Location: Little Black Pearl, 1060 E. 47ths St. Admission: free Tyehimba Jess cut his teeth on the slam circuit, a mark he wears proudly. On the page, leadbelly, his first book, is daunting; spoken it is a tour de force. leadbelly (Verse Press, 2005), is a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. Tyehimba also won the 2001 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Poetry Award, an
Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship in
Poetry for 2000?2001, and the 2001 Chicago
Sun-Times Poetry Award.
Tyehimba is
Associate Professor of Creative Writing,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
This event will take place at:
Little Black Pearl
1060 E. 47th St. (47th and Greenwood)
Co-sponsored with
Little Black Pearl FREE
Lecture
The Black Eclectic...Revisited Travis Jackson
Location: The Renaissance Society Admission: free This talk is an examination of the contradictory relationship a selection of black musicians have had with the recording industry, the media, and audiences as their creative choices have gone against an unconscious conflation of racial, ethnic and class categories with musical styles and genres.
Travis Jackson is Associate Professor, Music and the Humanities, The University of Chicago.
This event will take place in Cobb Hall, Room 403, down the hall from the gallery. FREE
Staged Reading
Orenthal Maarten van Hinte, writer, Ron Parson, director
Location: Experimental Station, 6100 S. Blackstone Admission: free Orenthal, a one act, one man play, portrays the rise and fall of O.J, an All-American superstar, versus Shakespeare?s Othello. It?s a monologue with cuts and scratches back and forth between Shakespeare, mainstream USA, and the streets that feed America?s dreams and nightmares.
Orenthal is written by Maarten van Hinte and
directed by Ron Parson, artist in residence at Court Theater. FREE
Panel Discussion
Post Black: There and Back Again Darby English, Kerry James Marshall, Kym Pinder, and Greg Foster-Rice
Location: Kent Hall, Room 120, University of Chicago Admission: free Never mind transcending race, will we ever get beyond ?post-black?? That is the question. Featuring a local roster of art historians and artist laureate Kerry James Marshall this panel will feature a series of presentations, each a distinct take.
Darby English, art historian, The University of Chicago Kerry James Marshall, artist Kym Pinder, art historian, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Greg Foster Rice, art historian, Columbia College
This event is co-sponsored with the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago.
This event will take place in Kent Hall, Room 120. Kent Hall, 1020 E. 58th St., is on the main quadrangle of the University. FREE
Lecture
An All New CHA? Janet Smith
Location: The Renaissance Society Admission: free The most significant transformation to Chicago?s skyline has been the dismantling of the federal housing projects. Smith has conducted a process study of relocating Chicago Housing Authority tenants. She will discuss both the internal and external dynamics of the CHA as it has undergone extensive overhauling within the past decade.
Janet Smith is Associate Professor, Urban Planning and Policy Program, The University of Illinois at Chicago
This event will take place in Cobb Hall, Room 403, down the hall from the gallery. FREE
Lecture
From the Moynihan Report to Obama's Candidacy Camille Charles and Lawrence Bobo
Location: Swift Hall, Room 310, University of Chicago Admission: free Any discussion of race inevitably ends with a glass-half-full-or-half-empty type of question. This sweeping summary, a fitting close to the exhibition, will be delivered by two of the most lauded scholars in their field.
Camille Charles is Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty Associate Director, Center for Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Lawrence Bobo is W.E.B. Dubois Professor of Sociology at Harvard.
This event is cosponsored with the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago.
This event will take place in Swift Hall, Room 310 (3rd floor lecture hall). Swift is the building directly east of Cobb Hall. FREE
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