Guest Gallery Talk: "Currents 40: Widline Cadet"
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Join Shelby Sinclair, Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Virginia, for a guest gallery talk about the historical and visual genealogies that shape Widline Cadet’s artwork.
This drop-in experience is included with Museum admission and is free for Members. Admission tickets are available at the door or online.
The Milwaukee Art Museum is grateful to its exhibition sponsors.
About the speaker:
Shelby M. Sinclair is Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute. She specializes in the history of U.S. empire, military occupation, gender, and resistance in the Caribbean and its diasporas. Her current book project explores Haitian women’s lives and labors during the 19-year U.S. military occupation of Haiti (1915-1934). Dr. Sinclair earned her PhD in History, African American Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies from Princeton University and BA with honors from Stanford University. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Virginia, she was the Thurgood Marshall Postdoctoral Fellow in African & African American Studies at Dartmouth College.
Image: Widline Cadet (Haitian, b. 1992), Jiskaske Enkinite Vini Nan Yon Fen (Until Infinity Comes To An End) (detail), 2021. Inkjet print. 32 × 40 in. (81.28 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Nazarian / Curcio. © Widline Cadet
This drop-in experience is included with Museum admission and is free for Members. Admission tickets are available at the door or online.
The Milwaukee Art Museum is grateful to its exhibition sponsors.
About the speaker:
Shelby M. Sinclair is Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute. She specializes in the history of U.S. empire, military occupation, gender, and resistance in the Caribbean and its diasporas. Her current book project explores Haitian women’s lives and labors during the 19-year U.S. military occupation of Haiti (1915-1934). Dr. Sinclair earned her PhD in History, African American Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies from Princeton University and BA with honors from Stanford University. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Virginia, she was the Thurgood Marshall Postdoctoral Fellow in African & African American Studies at Dartmouth College.
Image: Widline Cadet (Haitian, b. 1992), Jiskaske Enkinite Vini Nan Yon Fen (Until Infinity Comes To An End) (detail), 2021. Inkjet print. 32 × 40 in. (81.28 × 101.6 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Nazarian / Curcio. © Widline Cadet
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