ARTIST TALK
about
Activist artists Jae Jarrell and Wadsworth Jarrell
When
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
5:00-6:30PM
Where
Hood Auditorium
sponsor
Hood Museum of Art
Intended Audience(s)
Public
details
15 October, Wednesday, 5:00 p.m.
Hood Museum of Art Auditorium
ARTIST TALK
Activist artists Jae Jarrell and Wadsworth Jarrell, founding members of the Chicago collective AfriCOBRA, formed in 1968, will share its philosophy and their art in this special program facilitated by Rebecca Zorach, Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. Two works by Jae Jarrell appear the exhibition Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties. A reception will follow in Kim Gallery.
Image caption: Jae Jarrell, Urban Wall Suit, ca. 1969, sewn and painted cotton and silk, two-piece suit. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of R. M. Atwater, Anna Wolfrom Dove, Alice Fiebiger, Joseph Fiebiger, Belle Campbell Harriss, and Emma L. Hyde, by exchange; Designated Purchase Fund, Mary Smith Dorward Fund, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, and Carll H. de Silver Fund, 2012.80.16. © Jae Jarrell
For more information, contact:
Alison Palizzolo
alison.m.palizzolo@dartmouth.edu
603-646-2808
Permanent URL: https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=30481