Public Lecture
4:30 PM, February 29 (Thursday), 2024
Art Building Room 101
Join us on the final day of Black History Month for a lecture by Professor Joan Kee that explores the rich and surprisingly understudied relationship between contemporary Black and Asian artists, the artworks that result, and the worlds that their connections initiate.
Joan Kee is Professor in the History of Art at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art beyond Solidarity (2023), Models of Integrity: Art and Law in Post-Sixties America (2019) and Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method (2013). She is a contributing editor to Artforum and was an inaugural Ford Foundation Scholar in Residence at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.