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Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Monumental(?): Public Art & Protest

Spring 2020 Wiesenfeld

Lecture Series

PUBLIC ART & PROTEST

Please join us in our first workshop of the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Spring 2020 semester, featuring guest speaker and artist Lava Thomas! Informed by feminist discourse, alternative approaches to portraiture, secular and religious ideas of the sacred, and African-American devotional and protest traditions, Thomas considers themes of social justice, female subjectivity, current events and the shifting tides of history in her personal practice. 

Kroeber 285 | Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720

Wednesday, April 15th | 6:30pm-8pm | Doors open at 6pm

All lectures in the series are FREE and open to the public

Workshop Description

Interactive workshop and discussion involving unpacking and decolonizing the practices and structure within public art, the selection of public art and the intersections of the roles between the artwork itself, the artist as creator, the community and the selection committee.

This year’s Spring 2020 lecture series is curated by Prof. Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and focuses on artists who deal with issues concerning the intersections of social justice, healing and politics of belonging.

Presented by the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice

Earlier Event: April 10
Comic Jams
Later Event: April 22
Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Connie Zheng