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See ME! Cultural Reflection with Veronica Jackson

See ME! Cultural Reflection with Veronica Jackson

Sunday, January 9, 2022 (1:30 PM - 2:30 PM) (EST)

Description

In conjunction with the See Me exhibit, visual artist, curator, and critical studies scholar Veronica Jackson invites the audience to a contemporary art discussion featuring the work of African American women artists. The talk focuses on specific cultural producers who create a dialogue with, make comments upon, and generally interpret Blackness, womanhood, and individual agency related to invisibility, hypervisibility, devaluation, and power in public forums. 

Besides the artist’s own work, the presentation features the artworks of (in alphabetical order): 

-Zoe Charlton 

-Bethany Collins -

Michelline Hall 

-Simone Leigh 

-Deborah Roberts 

-Amy Sherald 

-Tasha Stimage 

-Kara Walker 

-Carrie Mae Weems 

-Alisha B. Wormsley 


Additional information about the speaker:

Veronica Jackson’s background encompasses the critical examination of visual culture. As an architect and designer she creatively solves problems related to the structural systems within virtual and built environments. As an artist she records, interprets, and makes aware the complexities in which humans exist and affect their social surroundings. Her visual art making practice is a combination of past professional disciplines, present lived experiences, and the cache of contemporary and historic research accumulated. Jackson’s initial and ongoing project—The Burden of Invisibility—is the physical manifestation of her evolution from designer to visual artist, as well as a reaction to the world around her. Jackson’s work investigates how Black women see, don’t see, value, or devalue themselves in visual culture, and how these attitudes affect their sense of agency in constructing their own imagery or endeavors to mark space. Her practice is text-based, autobiographical, and critically elucidates the visualization of gender and race in America, with a special focus on the portrayal, perception, and legacy of Black women in popular media both past and present.

Pricing

Admission is Free

Bower Center for the Arts
305 N. Bridge Street
Bedford, VA 24523 United States
Event Contact
Christopher Martin
Sunday, January 9, 2022 (1:30 PM - 2:30 PM) (EST)
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