California College of the Arts + SFMOMA present
Reckoning: Monuments and Racial History
Symposium
Saturday, September 8, 2018
California College of the Arts
9:30am

To mark the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Black Lives Matter movement and the closing of the SFMOMA exhibition Nothing Stable Under Heaven, the California College of the Arts (CCA) and SFMOMA jointly present a one-day symposium that explores the roles of art and architecture in bringing to light histories of racial violence, systematic oppression, and anti-racist movements. As the nation collectively comes to terms with its long history of racial violence and struggle, how can makers of monuments, photographs, sculptures, and other designed objects negotiate and make visible these racial histories? Participants include artists and designers, as well as art and architectural historians who have studied memorials, trauma, and monument-building.

NOTE: The event will include a symposium held at CCA’s SF campus, followed by an evening keynote speech at SFMOMA.

Symposium

Location: California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco

9:30am: Welcome and Introduction

9:45am - 11:30am: Panel 1 - Spatializing Racial Histories

• Renee Ater, University of Maryland, Emerita
• Darell Fields, UC Berkeley and CCA
• Lisa Uddin, Whitman College
• Moderated by Irene Cheng, CCA

11:45am - 1pm: Lunch

1:15pm - 3pm: Panel 2 - Visualizing Racial Histories

• Leigh Raiford, UC Berkeley
• Martin Berger, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• Jessica Ingram, CCA / Florida State University
• Moderated by Jordana Moore Saggese, University of Maryland at College Park

Location: SFMOMA, 151 Third Street, San Francisco (enter on Minna Street)

5:30pm: "Make Live, Let Die: Monuments to a Racial State"

• Mabel Wilson, Columbia University

Image credit: Jamelle Bouie, National Memorial for Peace and Justice