Robert
Purcell Community Center
8:45-10:45 AM: The Black Arts Movement in Theory and Practice
Moderator: James Turner, Professor and
Director, Africana Studies, Cornell University
Panelists:
Amiri Baraka, Poet, playwright and political activist, The Black
Arts Movement: Its Meaning and Potential
Haki R. Madhubuti, Poet, Publisher Third World Press, and Professor,
Chicago State University, How Did I Get Here?: Notes from the Autobiography
of a Poet, Activist
Sonia Sanchez, Professor and Poet, Temple University, TBA
Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, Professor, Afro-American Studies, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, The Politics of Aesthetics
Eleanor Traylor, Professor and English Department Chair, Howard University,
The Black Arts Movement and the Academy: The Example of Toni Cade
Bambara
10:45 AM-12:45 PM: Affirmation and Reclamation: Modernism and the origin
of a Black Aesthetic
Moderator: Biodun Jeyifo, Professor of English, Cornell University
Panelists:
David Driskell, Emeritus Professor, University of Maryland, College
Park, On Visualizing Blackness: A Conditional Reclamation of the
Black Aesthetic
Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, Associate Dean, Division of Fine Arts, College
of Arts and Sciences, Howard University, Affirmation and Reclamation
in the Late Works of Lois Mailou Jones
Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, Independent curator and art critic, Modernism:
A West Coast Interpretation
Clyde Taylor, Professor of Africana Studies and the Gallatin School,
New York University, Black to the Future
2:30-4:30
PM: Foregrounding Blackness: Art, Activism and the Community
Moderator:
Howard Dodson, Director, The Schomberg Center for Research in Black
Culture
Panelists:
Floyd Coleman, Professor of Art, Howard University, Spiral and African
American Modernism
Cora Marshall, Professor of Art, Central Connecticut State University,
Where We At: Black Women Artists
Edward S. Spriggs, Executive Director, Hammonds House Galleries and
Resource Center of African American Art, Atlanta, Field Notes: Raising
the ‘Studio’ at the Studio Museum
4:45-6:45 PM: Foregrounding Blackness: Comparative Perspectives from
Africa and the Diaspora
Moderator: Daniel Dawson, Curator and arts consultant, New York
Panelists:
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, artist, Cuba, A History of People who
were not Heroes
Richard Long, Atticus Haygood Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies,
Emory University, Call and Response: Alain Locke and Harlem Renaissance
Artists, 1971-1997)
Zita Nunes, Professor of English, University of Maryland, Cannibal’s
Way
Africana Studies and Research Center
9:00PM Reception
