Fall 2011 African American Studies Events and Exhibits
Upcoming Events, On Campus events are starred**
1. Free Day at the Hammer Museum and Kiss, Sunday, October 2, 2 pm Opening Day Art Performance http://www.sengasenga.com/index.htm by Senga Nengudi *(In conjunction with Now Dig This! exhibit at the Hammer Museum UCLA)
**2. Bliss: A Play by Velina Hasu Houston, Monday, October 3, 7pm USC Fisher Museum of Art. Bliss explores concepts of beauty, gender and identity in contemporary society. The play tells the story of an Afro-German woman who has struggled with her looks and identity. When her uncertain choices lead her to an unconscionably violent act, she is forced to deal with who she is and what she looks like. *(In conjunction with Posing Beauty exhibition)
**3. Posing Beauty/Posing Questions, Tuesday October 4 5-6:30 Tutor Center Grand Ball Room Deborah Willis, Robin Kelley, Carrie Mae Weems. Reception at USC Fisher Museum.
*(Visions and Voices & In conjunction with Posing Beauty exhibition)
**4. "Is Marriage for White People?" Wednesday, October 5, 4:00-6:00 pm. Reception: 6:00-7:00 pm Special Panel discussion of the provocative new book by Richard Banks - (Stanford Law), Panelists include: Kim Buchanan (USC), Melissa Murray (UC Berkeley), Doug Nejaime (Loyola) & Camille Gear Rich (USC), Moderator: Sandy Banks (Columnist, LA Times). Location: Davidson Conference Center
5. “Twenty Twenty” Wednesday, October 5, 7 pm. New Play about black music in LA 60s to 80s. *(In conjunction with Now Dig This! exhibit at the Hammer Museum)
**6. Elizabeth Alexander: Hearing America Singing: Multi-Vocal Cultures in America, Thursday, October 6, 6:30pm Annenberg Auditorium (ASC) Yale University Professor and Poet Admission is free. Please check for reservation information. Reception to follow.
**7. The Image of Masculinity, Wednesday, October 19, 2011 5:00 to 6:30pm USC Fisher Museum. Panel discussion on the constructions of black male images in visual media culture. *(In conjunction with Posing Beauty exhibition and African American Studies)
**8. Crime after Crime, Wednesday, October 26, 7 pm True story of the struggle of two lawyers to achieve justice for an incarcerated victim of domestic abuse and violence. USC School of Cinematic Arts. Make Reservations online. http://cinema.usc.edu/events/event.cfm?id=12033
**12. The Wedding Band, October 26-30th Wednesday- Friday, October 26-28, - 7:00 PM Saturday, October 29- 2:30 & 8 PM; Sunday, October 30, 2:30 PM by Alice Childress, The USC School of Theater. In the summer of 1918, as war rages in Europe, a smaller war breaks out in Charleston, South Carolina, when a growing attraction between an African-American seamstress and a white man accelerates into a full-blown affair.
13. “Constant Elevation: L.A. Black Arts Movement Through Spoken Word” Tuesday, November 1, 7pm featuring Jayne Cortez. Hammer Museum *(In conjunction with Now Dig This! Exhibit)
14. Films@CAAM – “Fannie Lou Hamer, Voting and Civil Rights Activist”, Thursday, November 3, 2011, 7pm Documentary film showing hosted by Los Angeles community activist Bobbie Anderson. Free and open to the public. California African American Museum.
15. Center for the Study of Political Graphics Discussion, Sunday, November 6, 2011, 3pm. Center for the Study of Political Graphics will be honoring Angela Davis, Reverend James Lawson, Dorothy Lawson, and Doug Minkler. There will be a reception and discussion with Angela Davis and Reverend James Lawson. Student tickets are $25. For more information: http://politicalgraphics.org/home.html
**16. Contesting Beauty, Wednesday, November 9, 5-6:30 p.m The USC Fisher Museum of Art hosts a talk on the impact of African American beauty pageants and the image of the idealized woman. With Professors Maxine Craig, Alison Trope, Sarah Banet-Weiser,and Lanita Jacobs. *(In conjunction with the Posing Beauty exhibition and African American Studies)
17. Films@CAAM: “The Nine Lives of Marion Barry,”.Thursday, November 10, 2011, 7pm - Former DC Mayor and U.S. House member and current Council member is chronicled in a revealing look at his fascinating and controversial life. Free and open to the public. RSVP (213) 744-2024.
18. Spicing the Diaspora (Presentation) Sunday, November 13, 2011, 2pm Chef Maite Gomez-Rejon takes us in a culinary travel from West Africa to Cuba, Mexico and the USA. RSVP (213) 744-2024.
19. “High Voltage: The Watts Legacy” Sunday, November 13, 3pm, Hammer Museum
20. “Taste and Style Just Aren’t Enough” Tuesday, November 15, 7 pm, Hammer Museum
**21. An Evening with Amiri Baraka, Wednesday, November 16, 2011 7:00pm Ronald Tutor Campus Center (TCC) Grand Ballroom. Black Arts Movement founder, poet and political activist Amiri Baraka, one of the most controversial and productive writers of the twentieth century, presents an evening of poetry, performance and conversation about his life and his life’s work. Admission is free. Reservations start Monday, October 24, at 9 a.m: To RSVP, click here.
22. Films@CAAM - Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin. Thursday, November 17, 2011, 7pm Often called the "unsung hero of the civil rights movement" Mr. Rustin is best know for being the chief strategist for the 1963 March on Washington. As Dr. Martin Luther King's mentor he shaped much of the policies and procedures for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Free and open to the public. RSVP (213) 744-2024.
Art Exhibits, Free Admission starred*
*USC Fisher Museum of Art Posing Beauty in African American Culture
September 7-December 3, 2012 In Harris Hall 823 Exposition Blvd 213-740-4561 Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 12-5pm Saturday, 12-4pm http://fisher.usc.edu/visit/ Off of Bloom Walk
1. Posing Beauty/Posing Questions, Tuesday October 4 5-6:30 Tutor Center Grand Ball Room Deborah Willis, Robin Kelley, Carrie Mae Weems. Reception at the Fisher Museum
2. The Image of Masculinity, Wednesday, October 19, 2011 5:00-6:30pm.USCFisher Museum. The USC Fisher Museum of Art hosts a talk about the impact of visual media culture on the black male images with Professor Francille Wilson and a distinguished panel including Professor Taj Frazier, Dr. Javon Johnson, ASE doctoral student, Kai Greene. Co sponsored by African American Studies.
3. Contesting Beauty, Wednesday, November 9, 5-6:30 pm A talk on the impact of African American beauty pageants and the image of the idealized woman. With Professors Maxine Craig, Alison Trope, Sarah Banet-Weiser, and Lanita Jacobs Co-sponsored by African American Studies.
*The California African American Museum
(CAAM) is located in Exposition Park at the corner of Figueroa Street and Exposition Blvd Hours: Galleries: Tuesday-Saturday 10:00am-5:00pm; Sunday 11:00am-5:00pm Admission is free, parking $10 www.caamuseum.org
1. Women: Game Changers, Less Known, Here Celebrated August 3 – November 6, 2011 Utilizing CAAM's soaring entrance space, flying banners celebrate centuries of achievements by African American women.. We celebrate physicians and nurses; barrier-breaking women pilots; chroniclers of history and culture;& sisters-in-arms marching through the military.
2. The African Diaspora in the Art of Miguel Covarrubias: Driven by color, shaped by Cultures September 1, 2011 –February 26, 2012 This CAAM organized exhibition thoroughly explores the representations of people of African descent in the work of Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias (1904 - 1957).
3. Places of Validation, Art & Progression September 29, 2011 – April 4, 2012 This CAAM curated exhibition utilizes a range of imagery to explore Los Angeles' parallel universe of places and people that served to validate and further the progression of African American art between 1940-1980.
The Hammer Museum, UCLA
Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980 October 2--January 8. Free Day October 2nd. A comprehensive exhibition that examines the vital legacy of the city’s African American visual artists. Now Dig This! comprises 140 works from 35 artists. Location: 10899 Wilshire Blvd. Hours: Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat 11am-7pm Thu 11am-9pm; Sun 11am-5pm. Phone Number: 310-443-7000
Link to Preview: http://hammer.ucla.edu/watchlisten/watchlisten/show_id/567753
1. *Free Day! “Kiss” Sunday, October 2, 2pm Opening Day Art Performance http://www.sengasenga.com/index.htm by Senga Nengudi
2. “Twenty Twenty” Wednesday, October 5, 7 pm New Play about black music in LA 60s to 80s
“Constant Elevation: L.A. Black Arts Movement Through Spoken Word”
3. Tuesday, November 1, 7pm featuring Jayne Cortez.
4. “High Voltage: The Watts Legacy” Sunday, November 13, 3pm
5. “Taste and Style Just Aren’t Enough” Tuesday, November 15, 7 pm
LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
LACMA is located at 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90036 323-857-6000. Hours: Monday-Tuesday, Thursday, 12-8 pm; Friday 12 pm; Weekends 11am-8pm. Admission: Students with ID $10.
1. “Five Car Stud 1969–1972, Revisited,” September 4, 2011–July 15, 2012 Edward Kienholz’s Five Car Stud (1969–72) is a powerful work that depicts the hatred many white Americans expressed toward racial minorities and interracial partnerships. In this horrifying life-size tableau, four automobiles and a pickup truck are arranged on a dirt floor in a dark room with their headlights illuminating a shocking scene: a group of white men exacting their gruesome “punishment” on an African American man whom they have discovered drinking with a white woman. Located in LACMA’s Art of the Americas Building, Level 2.
2. Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, October 23, 2011-January 22,2012 Glenn Ligon: AMERICADoor paintings, the coal dust Stranger canvases and the Coloring series. In addition, the retrospective will include the premiere of Ligon’s first multi-channel film installation: a work in progress examining Ralph Ellison’s writing of Invisible Man with a score by the noted jazz musician Jason Moran. Located in BCAM, Level 2. is the first mid-career retrospective of Ligon’s work in the United States. The exhibition includes unknown early material and the reconstruction of seminal bodies of work such as the
*Annenberg Space for Photography
BEAUTY CULTURE provides a seminal examination of photography’s role in capturing and defining notions of modern female beauty and how these images profoundly influence our lives in both celebratory and disturbing ways. LOCATION 2000 Avenue of the Stars, #10 Los Angeles, CA 90067 FREE HOURS Wed-Fri: 11am - 6pm Sat: 11am - 9pm Sun: 11am - 6pm Sat closing may change get parking validated BE SURE TO SEE THE 30 MINUTE FILM .Annenberg Space for Photography http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/
Museum of Tolerance Freedoms Sisters September 14, 2011 - January 9, 2012
Museum of Tolerance is located in the Simon Wiesenthal Plaza at 9786 West Pico Blvd (SE corner of Pico Boulevard and Roxbury Drive) Los Angeles, CA 90035. Hours: Monday -Friday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 pm (early close at 3:30 PM on Fridays November-March); closed on Saturday; Sunday 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Admission is $11.50 for students with ID. Free Parking underground.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u41ZnFSeIc&feature=player_embedded#!
Freedom’s Sisters, a collaboration between SITES and Cincinnati Museum Center, brings to life 20 African American women, from key 19th-century historical figures to contemporary leaders, who have fought for equality for all Americans. The exhibition is introduced by a video and electronic projections of strong artistic images that will seize visitors’ emotions. Organized around the themes of "Dare to Dream," "Inspire Lives," "Serve the Public," and "Look to the Future," graphically striking interactive stations tell the stories of Harriet Tubman, Mary McLeod Bethune, Septima Poinsette Clark, Fannie Lou Hamer, Dorothy Height, Coretta Scott King, Rosa Parks, and 13 other women leaders. Sponsored by Ford Motor Company Fund, Freedom’s Sisters includes educational and community outreach components to facilitate engagement with local audiences.
