Beauty and Fashion: The Black Portrait Symposium – @ NYU April 2-3, 2011
Beauty and Fashion: The Black Portrait Symposium
Event Date and Time:
April 2, 2011 – April 3, 2011
Saturday 9am-6pm, Sunday 2-9pm
Beauty and Fashion: The Black Portrait Symposium expands on the original concept of the gathering, as art historians, designers, visual artists, filmmakers and writers use design, media and visual culture to experiment with various ideas of the self and society while showing how individuals celebrate their beauty and style. The event explores trends and evolving roles of art, filmmaking and photography in fashion and portraiture from the mid-1950s to the present. The global scope that the symposium aims to embody is exemplified in a wide range of works and discussions. It draws upon the works of leading and emerging artists and scholars and focuses on the idea of the portrait, the materiality of fashion and aesthetics– of beauty as it relates to the black body in print and media. Presentations and interdisciplinary panels are comprised of photographers, scholars, critics, fashion designers, and visual artists who explore notions of canonization, power, sexuality, performance, archetypes and stereotypes in viewing the Black Portrait. –DW
Keynote Speaker Professor Richard Powell,
author of Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture
PRESENTERS:
John Akomfrah, M. Liz Andrews, Anthony Barboza, Isolde Brielmaier, Kalia Brooks, Michaela Angela Davis, Manthia Diawara, Cheryl Finley, Nicole Fleetwood, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Meklit Hadero, Leslie King-Hammond, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Chester Higgins, Jr., Tamar-kali, Lauren Kelley, Maya Lake, Sarah Lewis, Renée Mussai, Duro Olowu, Kambui Olujimi, Mimi Plange, Richard Powell, Jamel Shabazz, Xaviera Simmons, Lowery Stokes Sims, Cherise Smith, Hortense Spillers, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Kehinde Wiley, among others.
Organized and hosted by New York University Tisch School of the Arts’ Department of Photography & Imaging, and the Institute of African-American Affairs and Harvard University, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
Co-sponsored by NYU’s Office of the Provost, the Humanities Initiative and Visual Arts Initiative/NYU Arts Council in collaboration with SCA/Africana Studies, the Center for Race and Culture/MICA and The Studio Museum in Harlem.
For More Info: http://photo.tisch.nyu.edu/object/piRegisterBeauty2011.html
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