Deborah Roberts: Twenty Years of Art/Work
Contributed the essay "The Art of Creating” - Available October 2023
Visiting Artist, Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus and Statesboro Campus, October 26-27, 2022
Visiting Artist at the Armstrong Campus and Statesboro Campus. Visit included guest lecture “Revealing Spaces Between:Destructive Creative Acts,” presented at the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro Campus.
Symposium: The Question of "Africanness" and the Expanded Field of Sculpture (part one), September 24, 2022
Moderator of a conversation between Dr. Olu Oguibe (USA) and Dr. Johan Thom (South Africa) focused on exploring the question of "Africanness" in relation to an expanded definition of sculpture. Sponsored by IDSVA, The African Centre for the Study of the United States at the University of the Witwatersrand, The African Centre for the Study of the United States at the University of Pretoria, and The Villa-Legodi Centre for Sculpture at the NIROX Sculpture Park.
Transcript available here: www.villa-legodi.com/archive
Art, Access and Agency – Art Sites of Enabling Conference, The School of the Arts, University of Pretoria, October 7-9, 2021
Presented current research surrounding monumentally scaled contemporary artwork created by Black women artists in relation to physical space, access, social function, and agent of change. Sponsored by The School of the Arts and the Transformation Directorate, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. October 8, 2021
Departures, Deviations, Detours series, "Visions and Strategies for Academic Futures" February 26, 2021
In conversation with K. Wayne Yang (Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego). Departures, Deviations, Detours is a series of conversations meant to address the urgent and timely questions of historians of art.
THREE
Contributed an essay in response to the artwork of Deborah Roberts. A publication from Radius Books that is third in an ongoing series of limited edition photography projects. Published December, 2020.
College Art Association conference - February 10-13, 2021
Panel Co-Chair, “Reframing Aesthetics: Diaspora, Historicity, and The Myth of Truth.” February 13, 2021
Presenter, "Andrea Brustolon and Kerry James Marshall: Visualization of Blackness"
MA Symposium, San Francisco Art Institute.
“Negro Expositions: Portrait Photography in the Nineteenth And Twenty-First Centuries”
2013Commencement speech
San Francisco Art Institute Commencement, May 2013
#MLK50 Exhibit
Six artists from the US and Canada have been invited to re-visit and re-interpret the famous 1963 speech, “I have a dream” through their own lenses and experiences.
US Consulate announcement of #MLK50 Exhibit
Artists on “I Have a Dream” by Michelle Pucci
The Link newspaper
KQED Art Review May 17, 2012
“Debauchery and David Lynch: SFAI’s 2012 MFA Exhibition” KQED Arts Review, Mark Taylor