Beyond Boundaries: Seeing Art History from the Caribbean
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Oct. 20, and Friday, Oct. 21, the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute hosts a Clark Conference, Beyond Boundaries: Seeing Art History from the Caribbean.
The conference begins at 9 am in the Clark's auditorium. The program is free and open to the public.
Included in a press release: Why has art history—a discipline often defined by its relationship with shifting terrains of theoretical critique and analysis—been slow to engage with Caribbean writers and thinkers, to take seriously their multidisciplinary, multi-theoretical, and multi-lingual voices? This conference asks what a deep engagement with the nuances of Caribbean intellectual thought could mean for art history.
Speakers include:
- Anna Arabindan-Kesson (co-convener), assistant professor of African American and Black diasporic art Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
- Anthony Bogues, Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory; professor of Africana studies and history of art and architecture; director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
- Petrina Dacres, curator and head of art history, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts Kingston, Jamaica
- Aldeide Delgado, founder and director, Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) Miami
- Andil Gosine, professor, environmental arts & justice coordinator York University, Toronto
- Yanique Hume, lecturer in cultural studies University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados
- Deborah Jack, artist, associate professor of art New Jersey City University, Jersey City Erica Moiah James, assistant professor of African, Black & Caribbean Art University of Miami
- patricia kaersenhout, artist Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Daniella Rose King, adjunct curator of Caribbean diasporic art Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, London
- Charl Landvreugd, artist Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Tessa Mars, artist and resident fellow (2020–2022)
- Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Wayne Modest (co-convener), head of research, National Museum of Worldcultures, and director of content, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- María Elena Ortiz, curator The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas Jerry Philogene, associate professor of American studie Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
- Marcel Pinas, artist Suriname
- Veerle Poupeye, independent curator Kingston, Jamaica
- Adrienne Rooney, PhD candidate in art history Rice University, Houston
- Nicole Smythe-Johnson, independent curator, PhD candidate in art history The University of Texas at Austin
- David Scott, Ruth and William Lubic Professor of Anthropology Columbia University, New York City
- Andrea Chung, artist San Diego, California
The event is free; advance registration is not required. For more information, visit clarkart.edu/events.
This program has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy Demands Wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in these programs do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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