HAA Guest Lecture Series- Professor Rebecca Zorach, Northwestern University
Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 6 pm
Rebecca Zorach, Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History, Northwestern University
Rebecca Zorach, Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History, Northwestern University
“Black in the Garden: Ecologies of Art, Race, and the Outdoors.”
co-sponsored by the African-American Studies Program and the American and New England Studies Program
The talk takes as its starting point the reinstallation in Chicago of the gazebo where twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was gunned down by a police officer in Cleveland in 2014. The gazebo now sits outside the Rebuild Foundation, the brainchild of Chicago artist Theaster Gates, where it occupies an uncertain status as memorial, possible artwork, and usable leisure space. The installation provokes questions about the construction of (or absence of) leisure, play, and safety for young people of African descent in North America, which Prof. Zorach addresses through both the history of parks and gardens and a series of works by contemporary artists.
co-sponsored by the African-American Studies Program and the American and New England Studies Program
The talk takes as its starting point the reinstallation in Chicago of the gazebo where twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was gunned down by a police officer in Cleveland in 2014. The gazebo now sits outside the Rebuild Foundation, the brainchild of Chicago artist Theaster Gates, where it occupies an uncertain status as memorial, possible artwork, and usable leisure space. The installation provokes questions about the construction of (or absence of) leisure, play, and safety for young people of African descent in North America, which Prof. Zorach addresses through both the history of parks and gardens and a series of works by contemporary artists.
Rebecca Zorach teaches and writes on early modern European art (15th-17th century), contemporary activist art, and art of the 1960s and 1970s. Particular interests include print media, feminist and queer theory, theory of representation, African American artists, and the multiple intersections of art and politics.
Boston University College of Arts & Sciences Building
725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, Room 132
725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, Room 132
This event is free and open to the public.