Co-Curator Conversation: Nordic Utopia? with Ethelene Whitmire

Join us in the Garfield Gallery for a captivating Co-Curator Conversation at the Chazen Museum of Art, featuring Ethelene Whitmire, co-curator of the exhibition Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century. This program offers a unique opportunity to delve into the rich narrative of the exhibition, exploring the intersection of Nordic culture and African American experiences throughout the 20th century.

Space is limited, so secure your place today and join us for a morning of discovery and dialogue at the Chazen Museum of Art.

Some standing and walking is required for this program. Please let us know if you request any accommodations.

About Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century.

Exhibition on view August 10–November 10, 2024

Leslie and Johanna Garfield Galleries

Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century illuminates the untold story of African American visual and performing artists, such as Doug Crutchfield, Herb Gentry, Dexter Gordon, William Henry Johnson, Howard Smith, and Walter Williams, who sought new possibilities, inspiration, and environments in the Nordic countries as an alternative to Paris. This exhibition is the first comprehensive examination of this topic.

About Ethelene Whitmire

Whitmire is a professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison affiliated with the departments of German, Nordic, and Slavic+, and Gender & Women's Studies. She received an American-Scandinavian Foundation fellowship and a Lois Roth Endowment grant to support this project. She was also a 2016-2017 Fulbright Scholar and visiting professor at the University of Copenhagen’s Center for Transnational American Studies

Host or Publisher Chazen Museum of Art