Voices: Romi Crawford
@ Gallery 400
400 S Peoria St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Tuesday, October 3rd, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Romi Crawford presents a lecture on October 3 at 6PM as part of the Voices lecture series at Gallery 400.
Romi Crawford’s research revolves primarily around formations of racial and gendered identity and the relation to American visual arts, film, and popular culture. Crawford (Ph.D) is Associate Professor in the departments of Visual and Critical Studies and Liberal Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent curatorial projects include “The Wall of Respect; Vestiges, Shards, and the Legacy of Black Power”, at Chicago Cultural Center and “Radical Relations!: Memory, Objects and the Generation of the Political”, at The University of Chicago Center for Gender Studies. She makes regular contributions to publications on contemporary art and American culture; including, Theaster Gates, Black Archive (Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2017) and “Do For Self: The AACM and the Chicago Style” in Support Networks (University of Chicago Press, 2014). She is co-author (with Abdul Alkalimat and Rebecca Zorach) of “The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago” (Northwestern University Press, 2017). In 2016, she founded the Museum of Vernacular Arts, a project based platform for art forms that are part of everyday experience.
This event is free & all are welcome.
See more at: http://gallery400.uic.edu/events/voices-romi-crawford
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