Thursday, February 20, 2025 | 4 - 6 pm
Cole Student Activities Building, 1207
Join us for a lecture by scholar and writer Dr. Nikki Greene as she discusses her recent book, "Grime, Glitter, and Glass: The Body and the Sonic in Contemporary Black Art" which examines how contemporary Black visual artists use sonic elements to refigure the formal and philosophical developments of Black art and culture.
A tea will be hosted at 4 pm, and the lecture will start at 5 pm in the gallery.
Grime, Glitter, and Glass
Focusing on the multimedia art of Renée Stout, Radcliffe Bailey, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Greene traces the intersection of the visual’s sonic possibilities with the Black body’s physical, representational, and metaphorical use in art. She employs her concept of “visual aesthetic musicality” to interpret Black visual art by examining the musical genres of jazz and rap, along with the often-overlooked innovations of funk and rumba, within art historiography...