Symphony Space

African Diaspora: Visual Artists Looking at Heritage: Expectations Regarding Race and Ethnicity (Panel Discussion)

Moderator: Leslie King Hammond, Graduate Dean, Maryland Institute College of Art; exhibitions include: Delaware Center for Contemporary Art; Goucher College; Turner Art Center Gallery, Centenary College. Fellowships at Ragdale Foundation; Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; Cambridge Center

Panelists:
Louis Cameron. MFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University (1997). Participated in Artist-In-Residence program at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Exhibitions at I-20 gallery, New York (2005, 2003), Art in General, New York (2003), Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (2004); Brooklyn Museum of Art (2004); Contemporary Museum, Baltimore (2000); Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris (2004), and M'ARS Gallery, Moscow (2005)

Charles Labelle has shown across the US including at Artists Space, New York; Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; ArtPace, San Antonio, TX; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA. Recipient of awards and grants including a Getty Trust Fellowship; Rockefeller Foundation Grant

Fo Wilson uses the language of furniture to investigate ideas around identity, culture and the human experience and produces work that often crosses boundaries between, art, design, and craft. MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design's Furniture Design program (2005). Currently Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Her work is in the collection of The Cooper Hewitt National Museum of Design

Part of AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA:Traditions, Revolutions and Innovations, A Festival and Symposium. Presented by Purchase College School of the Arts, in collaboration with Symphony Space, The Business Council for International Understanding, The Africa Institute of the American Jewish Committee and The New York Immigration Coalition.

Venue: Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
Tickets: FREE

Showdate(s):
Sunday, May 11, 2008 @ 1:15 pm

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