Celebrating Afro-Cuban Artist Wifredo Lam: A Talk with Art Historian Lowery Stokes Sims

Name: Celebrating Afro-Cuban Artist Wifredo Lam: A Talk with Art Historian Lowery Stokes Sims
Start: 2025-02-20T17:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-20T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Temple Hoyne Buell Hall

Schedule

Thu Feb 20 2025 at 05:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Temple Hoyne Buell Hall | Urbana, IL

Join Krannert Art Museum and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in celebrating the museum’s recent acquisition of the painting Personage (1969) by renowned Afro-Cuban artist Wifredo Lam.
Feb 20, 2025 - 5–8pm
Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall,
611 Lorado Taft Dr., Champaign
CLACS and KAM invite you to a talk by American art historian and curator Lowery Stokes Sims, followed by a public reception and musical performance from the Afro-Caribbean Jazz Collective. This event is free and open to the public. Food and drink will be served.
About Lowery Stokes Sims-----------------------------
Lowery Stokes Sims is a distinguished American art historian and curator specializing in modern and contemporary art, known for her expertise in the work of African, African American, Latinx, Native, and Asian American artists. She is particularly acclaimed for her scholarship on Wifredo Lam and on Afro-Caribbean art and identity more broadly. Throughout her career, Sims has amplified underrepresented voices and reshaped art historical narratives, promoting greater recognition for diasporic and marginalized communities in the art world.
Afro-Caribbean Jazz Collective-------------------------
The Afro-Caribbean Jazz Collective, founded by José Guzmán during his graduate studies at the University of Illinois, is celebrating six years and preparing for a 2024 tour with the release of Fiesta at Caroga. Its 2019 EP received airplay across the U.S. and South America. A native of Ponce, Puerto Rico, Guzmán is a versatile guitarist, performing across jazz, classical, and rock genres. He served as an artist-in-residence at the Caroga Lake Music Festival and earned a 2020 Urbana Arts Grant to compose works blending Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican rhythms. His projects have also been supported by Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Urbana Arts, and the Mykytyn Composition Award, with recordings featured on albums by Dimitrije Vasiljevic, KASA String Quartet, and Mr. Chair.
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Partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.