All Events
All events are free to the public.
Performances
Performance by Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, exhibiting artist.
CAC Gallery, UC Irvine
Performed by JoVia Armstrong's Eunoia Society
JoVia Armstrong, percussionist+composer, Ph.D. Program in Integrated Composition, Composition, and Technology, UC Irvine, with Leslie DeShazor, viola; Jeff Parker, guitar; Isaiah Sharkey, bass; Nicole Mitchell, Flute; Yaw Agyeman, vocals; Teh'Ray "Phenom" Hale, Lyrcist; and Amr Fahmy, keys.
Film by Jonathan Woods
Musical Performance by Darryl Taylor, Professor, Department of Music, UC Irvine with Catherine Miller, pianist.
CAC Gallery, UC Irvine
Dance Performance by Nola Gibson
Choreography by S. Ama Wray, Professor, Department of Dance, UC Irvine
Film by Desha Dauchan, Professor, Department of Film & Media Studies, UC Irvine with Jerry Henry, cinematographer; Melba Williams-Kirk, editor & VFX
CAC Gallery UC Irvine
Conversations
The Art Galleries at Black Studies (AGBS) invites you to a talk with the artist Hakeem Adewumi. He will discuss his photographic practice and how his work subverts notions of traditional portraiture, just as the artists of The Black Index do so through unexpected and unconventional depictions. Adewumi will be in conversation with Kendyll Gross, the Curator of Public Programs.
The Art Galleries at Black Studies (AGBS) invites you to join a talk with the artist Dennis Delgado, whose work is featured in the exhibition The Black Index. Delgado will be in conversation with Dr. Simone Browne, Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Join us for a special conversation with the two Bay Area artists included in The Black Index.
Celebrate the premiere of The Black Index at the Palo Alto Art Center with a virtual walkthrough by exhibition curator Bridget R. Cooks, a redaction poetry activity with playwright Leelee Jackson, and a concluding presentation by Palo Alto author Julie Lythcott-Haims.
Simone Fujita, Bibliographer, African American Art History Initiative at The Getty Research Institute with Krystal Tribbett, Curator for Orange County Regional History, UC Irvine
Presented by The Getty Research Institute
Exhibiting artist, Alicia Henry, Professor of Art, Fisk University in conversation with Bridget R. Cooks, exhibition curator of The Black Index and Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Art History, University of California, Irvine
Cherise Smith, Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, UT Austin
Dennis Delgado, exhibiting artist in The Black Index in conversation with CalvinJohn Smiley, Assistant Professor of Sociology Hunter College
Lava Thomas, artist, with Leigh Raiford, Professor of African American Studies, UC Berkeley; and Whitfield Lovell, artist, with LeRonn Brooks, Curator for Modern and Contemporary Collections, The Getty Research Institute
Presented by The Getty Research Institute
Courtney Baker, Associate Professor in the Department of English at UC Riverside.