WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program (RAP) hosts two public events as part of its Imprinting Race Colloquium, a two-day program exploring the intersections between race and printmaking.

 

On Thursday, March 17 at 5:30 pm, RAP presents an artist's talk by printmaker Curlee Raven Holten. On Friday, March 18 at 3 pm, RAP hosts a roundtable discussion featuring a panel of colloquium participants. Each event will be held in the Clark's auditorium as well as livestreamed. These programs are free but advance registration to receive the livestream link is required.

 

Imprinting Race: Artist's Talk by Curlee Raven Holton

March 17, 2022

Master printmaker Curlee Raven Holton, executive director of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park, explores the ways in which race influences and informs his artistic practice.

 

Prior to the talk, attendees are invited to join a reception in the Manton Research Center's Reading Room at 5 pm.

 

Imprinting Race: A Roundtable Discussion on the Materiality of Print and the Making of Race

March 18, 2022

This roundtable explores the role of printmaking in tangibly shaping and challenging ideas of racial difference. Motivated by colonial encounters and the later, widespread institution of chattel slavery in the Atlantic world, early modern Europeans and their inheritors sought to materialize race to ground social hierarchy in physical, bodily difference. The participants of this conversation will consider two important strands of recent art-historical scholarship on materiality and the production of race, exploring the question: how have the constitution of matrix and print shaped different conceptions of surfaces and bodies?

 

Participants include Horace Ballard (Harvard Art Museums), Layla Bermeo (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Jennifer Chuong (Harvard University), Jase Clark (Raven Fine Art Editions), Thadeus Dowad (University of California, Berkeley), Kailani Polzak (University of California, Santa Cruz), and Curlee Raven Holton (Lafayette College and Raven Fine Art Editions).

 

This event will be followed by a reception in the Manton Research Center's Reading Room.

 

Visit clarkart.edu/events for more information and to register for the livestreams.