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“Imprinting Race: Artist Talk & A Roundtable Discussion on the Materiality of Print and the Making of Race” (Virtual, 17-18 MARCH 2022)

IMPRINTING RACE: ARTIST TALK BY CURLEE RAVEN HOLTON

THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2022
5:30 PM–6:30 PM

Master printmaker Curlee Raven Holton, who also serves as executive director of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park, discusses his artistic practice, with an emphasis on the intersections of race and printmaking.

Presented live in the Clark's auditorium. This program will also be livestreamed; advance registration online (https://www.clarkart.edu/event/detail/1989-88540) to receive the livestream link is required.


IMPRINTING RACE: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON THE MATERIALITY OF PRINT AND THE MAKING OF RACE

FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2022
3:00 PM–4:00 PM

This roundtable explores the role of printmaking in tangibly shaping and challenging ideas of racial difference. Motivated by colonial encounters and the later, widespread institution of chattel slavery in the Atlantic world, early modern Europeans and their inheritors sought to materialize race to ground social hierarchy in physical, bodily difference. The participants of this conversation will consider two important strands of recent art-historical scholarship on materiality and the production of race, exploring the question: how have the constitution of matrix and print shaped different conceptions of surfaces and bodies?

Participants include Horace Ballard (Harvard Art Museums), Layla Bermeo (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Jennifer Chuong (Harvard University), Jase Clark (Raven Fine Art Editions), Thadeus Dowad (University of California, Berkeley), Kailani Polzak (University of California, Santa Cruz), and Curlee Raven Holton (Lafayette College and Raven Fine Art Editions).

Presented live in the Clark's auditorium. This program will also be livestreamed; advance registration online (https://www.clarkart.edu/event/detail/1988-88539) to receive the livestream link is required.

Additional support provided by the Association of Print Scholars and The Rare Book School.
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