Sentences with phrase «around black identity»

12 January 30 April 2011 Lubaina Himid explores provocative issues around black identity, and for this show, she has researched and selected pieces from the gallery's West African textile collection.

All throughout my undergrad I worked with issues around black identity and culture, and when I came to OCAD to do my Masters I started reading a bunch of different texts, and then really focused on black masculinity.

The timing though is fortuitous, with Childish Gambino's This is America song and music video being released earlier this week and bringing to the fore again questions around black identity, gun violence and black male bodies.

Not exact matches

In times past, people united around shared identity — think white male country club or the black barbershop.

Building on a growing interest in reassessing the role of the Black Arts Movement in the construction of contemporary ideas around race, national identity, gender and aesthetics, the conference asserts the continued and dynamic presence of the «Critical Decade».

The Oscar winner — who tried but completely failed to hide his identity under a baseball cap and a black hoodie while walking around with a huge entourage — spent more than an hour at New York's Van de Weghe booth at Art Basel in Miami during Wednesday's VIP preview.

Many of the artist's works evoke his African - American identity and the broader struggle for civil rights, from sculptures incorporating fire hoses, to events organized around soul food, and choral performances by the experimental musical ensemble Black Monks of Mississippi, led by Gates himself.

Working around issues of black male identity in the exhibition Tailor, Singer, Striker, Dandy (2011) at the Gallery of Costume, Platt Hall, Manchester Art Gallery she selected from the large West African textile collection in the gallery's stores and reinterpreted the materials to express contemporary and historic male identity through appearance and clothes.

The artist has made a point of highlighting the way her identity as a black woman has unavoidably become central to the conversations around her work.

It is a multi-platform project comprised of an interactive website and online learning community, a curriculum for high schools and universities and community events partnered with organizations, centered around debunking the hegemonic identity container of what a «Black» «Male» in America signifies.

His paintings, performance art, and scholarly work address concerns around representations of black masculinity in popular culture and how these images impact both the reading and performance of black male masculinity and identity.

Pecou's paintings, performance art, and scholarly work addresses concerns around representations of black masculinity in popular culture and how these images impact both the reading and performance of black male masculinity and identity.

Her work «revolves around black American history and ways in which technology shapes identities, often with her own personal history as a point of departure.»

Featuring Theaster Gates, whose recent exhibition A Johnson Publishing Story at the Rebuild Foundation explores the enduring role of Ebony and Jet magazines in defining and popularizing a black aesthetic and identity around the globe; Corinne Granof and Amy Beste on the work of Goldsholl and Associates, whose films, television ads, and other moving image work innovated «designs - in - film» influenced by László Moholy - Nagy and the Bauhaus approach; and historian Lara Allison, speaking on the seminal legacy of the Great Ideas campaign by the Container Corporation from 1950 — 80.

Often taking her own life as a point of departure, she makes works that revolve specifically around black American experiences and the ways in which technology and identities are entangled.