The Rutgers Mason Gross School of Visual Arts and the Center for Cultural Analysis are delighted to bring you world-renowned artist Kara Walker and distinguished poet Evie Shockley in an exchange of ideas in a conversational atmosphere. Join us for a rare public discussion of how image and text shape our understanding of the history of race and blackness in America and their ongoing contemporary impact.
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Kara Walker, At the behest of Creative Time Kara E. Walker has confected: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant (installation view) A project of Creative Time Domino Sugar Refinery, Brooklyn, NY, May 10 - July 6, 2014 Photo by Jason Wyche © Kara Walker, courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York. |