Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Shellyne Rodriguez in Conversation

The Hunter College Art Galleries, under the auspices of the Department of Art and Art History, have been a vital part of the New York cultural landscape since their inception over a quarter century ago.Located at the nexus of art and culture in New York City, the galleries provide a space for critical engagement with art and pedagogy, bringing together historical scholarship, contemporary artistic practice, social awareness, and experimental methodology. Since their inauguration in 1981, the Hunter College Art Galleries have presented more than 200 exhibitions. The galleries are committed to producing exhibitions, events, and scholarship in dialogue with the intellectual discourse generated by the faculty and students.Widely regarded as one of the leading art programs in the country, Hunter College’s Department of Art and Art History serves both undergraduate and graduate students, offering a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in studio art, and a Master of Arts in art history. In its 2012 rankings of “America’s Best Graduate Schools,”U.S. News & World Reportranked Hunter’s MFA program thirteenth and the painting and drawing program seventh in the nation.

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Global Abolition and Visual Art: A conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Shellyne Rodriguez

Thursday, March 31, 1pm EST ON ZOOMGlobal Abolition and Visual Art: A conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Shellyne Rodriguez is organized in concert with the exhibitions <a href="https://www.theblackindex.art/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Black Index</a>, curated by Bridget R. Cooks (on view at the <a href="http://www.leubsdorfgallery.org/calendar/2022/1/27/the-black-index" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Leubsdorf Gallery</a>, Feb. 1–April 3, 2022) and <a href="http://theartistsinstitute.org/artists/october-9-2021-february-26-2022/no-tears-in-conversation-with-horace-pippin/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">No Tears: In Conversation with Horace Pippin</a> (previously on view at The Artist Institute, Nov. 11–Dec. 18, 2021). Following the conversation Brittany Webb, Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth-Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, will join Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Shellyne Rodriguez for a moderated Q &amp; A session.This program is funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.This event will include live captioning (CART).SPEAKER BIOS:Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, and teaches in Earth and Environmental Sciences, American Studies, and Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Author of the award-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (UC Press), her forthcoming books include Change Everything (Haymarket); Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation (Verso); and (co-edited with Paul Gilroy) Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke). The documentary Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore features her internationalist political work. She has co-founded many grassroots organizations including California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network. Gilmore has lectured in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Recent honors include co-recipient (with Angela Y. Davis and Mike Davis) of the 2020 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Prize. <a href="https://www.shellynerodriguez.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Shellyne Rodriguez</a> is an artist, educator, writer, and community organizer based in the Bronx. Her practice utilizes text, drawing, painting, collage, and sculpture to depict spaces and subjects engaged in strategies of survival against erasure and subjugation. Brittany Webb is the inaugural Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth-Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA). Webb’s recent exhibitions include the co-curated show Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale (November 2020–September 5, 2021). Webb is also organizing a major retrospective exhibition and catalogue of the work of the African American sculptor John Rhoden (1916-2001) and stewards a collection of nearly 300 sculptures by Rhoden, leading PAFA’s ongoing effort to place his artworks into the permanent collections of museums around the world. Prior to joining PAFA, Webb was a member of the curatorial staff of the African American Museum in Philadelphia. Dr. Webb holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Temple University and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern California.Image above: Installation view of The Black Index at Hunter College Art Galleries’ Leubsdorf Gallery, 2022. Photo: Stan NartenImages below: Titus Kaphar. The Jerome Project (Asphalt and Chalk) XI, 2015. Chalk on asphalt paper. 48 ¼ x 36 13/16 inches. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, Museum Purchase, Barbara Cooney Porter Fund. ©Titus Kaphar.Horace Pippin. John Brown Going to His Hanging, 1942. Oil on canvas. 24 1/8 x 30 1/4 inches. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, John Lambert Fund, 1943.

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