Invited Speaker at the 2023 Black in Design Conference
Speaker at the 2023 Black in Design conference. This year explores the theme of Black home’s and their multidimensionality — as a literal structure that shelters, as a reflection of culture and traditions, and as spaces that are not entirely physical. The goal is to establish a broader understanding and alternate ways of experiencing the Black home in an effort to reinforce the ideals of Black communities living across the country and larger diaspora so that we can plan for its future.
See Talk Here: 2023 Black In Design Conference at Harvard
In the Making, A Year-long Collaboration with Booker T. Washington STEM Academy
Students from Booker T Washington STEM Academy works with Nekita Thomas, one of the artists from the Black on Black on Black on Black exhibition at Krannert Art Museum, as she shares her anti-racist design solutions through a t-shirt making workshop for students to create artwork that represents their identities at their elementary school.
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BLACK ON BLACK ON BLACK ON BLACK
Art about Black experiences headlines upcoming exhibition at the Krannert Art Museum
This exhibition will feature Black faculty in the School of Art & Design through the lens of the Black Quantum Future as proposed by Philadelphia-based activists and theorists Rasheeda Phillips and Camae Ayewa. The collaborative exhibition will explore Black identity, collectivity, positionality, healing, innovation, and education as explored via a multi-leveled/multi-dimensional immersive, critical, and openly reflective space.
This re-visioning of the Faculty Exhibition recognizes the legacy of Black knowledge and production in ways that supports the ongoing efforts by the School of Art & Design, Krannert Art Museum, College of Fine and Applied Arts, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign towards addressing and celebrating our unique diversity, equity, and inclusion.
A lecture series, community conversations, sound installation, and a catalog is planned in conjunction with the exhibition.
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