Robert Purcell Community Center
8:45-10:30 AM: Race, Stereotypes and the Politics of Representation

Moderator: Anne Adams, Professor, Africana Studies, Cornell University

Panelists:
Camille Billops, Artist, filmmaker, and Co-Founder of the Hatch-Billops Collection and Archive of African American History, Take Your Bags, A Special Take on the Middle Passage
Michael Harris, Artist and Professor of Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Trope a Dope: Signifyin' Aunt Jemima
Howardena Pindell, Artist and Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Diaspora—Realities—Strategies

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10:45 AM-12:30 PM: New Discourses: Gender, Feminism and Postmodernism and the Black Subject

Moderator: Leslie King-Hammond, Dean of Graduate Studies, Maryland Institute, College of Art; art historian, curator, and artist

Panelists:
Freida High (Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis), Artist and Professor of Art and Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gender, Feminism and Postmodernism: Images and Issues Within and Beyond the Path/s of "The Black Arts Movement" (U.S.A.) of the 1960s
Kellie Jones, Professor of History of Art and African American Studies, Yale University, Lorna Simpson: Photography into Film (Noir)
Deborah Willis-Kennedy, Artist and Curator, Smithsonian Institution, Race and Representation of the Black Female Body

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Uris Hall Auditorium
1:30-3:00 PM: Keynote Address

Faith Ringgold, Artist, Professor of Art, University of California, San Diego. More than 30 Years of Making Art

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Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
3:30-5:30 PM: Artists panel

Moderator: Raymond A Dalton, Executive Director, Office of Minority Educational Affairs, Cornell University

Panelists:
Emma Amos, Artist and Professor of Art, Rutgers University, In the Circle of Spiral
Kay Brown, Artist and art historian, Washington, DC, The Founding of Where We At: Black Women Artists
Jeff Donaldson, Artist and Emeritus Dean, School of Fine Arts, Howard University, TBA
Mel Edwards, Sculptor and Professor of Art, Rutgers University, TBA
Ademola Olugebefola, Artist and Co-Director, Grinnell Fine Art Collection, New York, Weusi Thunder in Contemporary Mythology: Shango in the Western Hemisphere

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5:30-7:00 PM: Public Reception and exhibit viewing
at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum

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7:30 PM: Banquet (Tickets available)

Keynote Speaker: Barry Gaither, Director/Curator, Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Adjunct Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, I’ll Speak for Myself: Give me that Platform!

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African Studies and Research Center
11:00 PM: Dance Party (with DJ)

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