This talk considers Black aesthetic practice as a method of thinking, teaching, and world-making in the unfinished project of emancipation.
Through the work of Black women artists, it explores how movement and aesthetic refusal reveal the limits of institutional freedom and open pedagogies of living otherwise.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
gloria j. wilson is Associate Professor of Arts Administration, Education, and Policy at The Ohio State University, co-editor of A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back and founder/ former co-director of Racial Justice Studio (Arizona Arts). gloria is recognized for her work in Black Studies, cultural studies, hip hop and transnational feminisms, fugitive praxis, Afro-Asian solidarities, and as a facilitator for anti-racism workshops in museums and community spaces utilizing arts-based methodologies. Also a practicing artist, gloria's work broadly examines notions of liberation, power, access across arts modalities and specifically examines the intersections of identity and how arts participation has been framed.
As an invited artist/speaker, she has presented for Spelman College's Museum of Art BLACK BOX series and for Stanford's Theoretical Archaeology Group's (TAG) Rethinking Archaeology Pegagogies series. She is a steering committee member for create, a collective advocating for racial equity in the arts and education and is current Senior Editor for the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education. Her current art-making focuses on the intersections of freedom-dreaming, garment-making and print-making, particularly the Blackademic Project and forthcoming installation honoring the descendants of Clotilda survivors in Africatown, Mobile, Alabama. Her work has been exhibited in numerous museums and universities throughout the United States.
Part of the School of Art & Design Visiting Artist Lecture series.
Krannert Art Museum acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
