Visualizing Identity: Exploring Dimensions of the Self through Art

Speaker Name: Dr. Adrienne Childs
Department: Independent scholar, Associate, WEB DuBois Institute
University or Organization: Harvard University

The 2021 Emerging Scholars Symposium, “Visualizing Identity: Exploring Dimensions of the Self through Art”, will showcase research by current graduate students and other emerging scholars related to themes of art and identity throughout the history of visual and material culture.

The symposium’s keynote lecture “In the Vortex of Art and Identity: The Black Female as Object and Subject”, presented by Dr. Adrienne Childs, will take place Thursday, February 18 at 5:30 PM.

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Students will present their research virtually from 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM on February 19 and 20.

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Dr. Adrienne Childs will give the keynote lecture titled “In the Vortex of Art and Identity: The Black Female as Object and Subject.” for the 2021 Emerging Scholars Symposium, “Visualizing Identity: Exploring Dimensions of the Self through Art”. The symposium, organized by the Association of Graduate Art Students at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, will showcase research by current graduate students and other emerging scholars related to themes of art and identity throughout the history of visual and material culture.

The symposium is organized by the Association of Graduate Art Students (AGAS) at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, and presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Emma Amos: Color Odyssey,” on view at the Georgia Museum of Art January 30 – April 25th, 2021. 

View the full symposium program here.

Image: Emma Amos, “Seated Figure and Nude,” 1966. Oil on canvas, 56 × 50 inches. Emanuel Family Collection