SLAVICULT Reading Group on African American Artistic Resistance in the Civil War South

Feb. 18

12:00–1:30 pm
Zoom

Join the Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group (SLAVICULT) for a virtual reading group session to discuss the role of African Americans as producers and viewers of art as well as in artistic resistance in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century United States. Claudia Brittenham, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, will lead the discussion. The group will read two essays by Jennifer Van Horn, Associate Professor of Art History and History at the University of Delaware, which can be downloaded prior to the event.