Performing Race In African American Visual Culture

Symposium to investigate performances of race and how they're manifested in African American art

Based on the understanding that race is an ideology that is performed on a daily basis, this symposium will investigate how and why performances of race are manifested or subverted in African American visual culture. Keynote Lecture: Wednesday, September 15, 6:00 PM, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. - Professor Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University, Durham, NC Symposium: Thursday, September 16, 8:30AM-5PM, David C. Driskell Center