Lecture: The Art of Perception: Look Closely to Save a Life

Schedule

Thu Oct 28 2021 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

Location

Quick Center for the Arts | Fairfield, CT

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The Bellarmine Hall Galleries and Walsh Galleries are open to the public starting September 18, but in accordance with the University's Covid-19 protocols and the Town of Fairfield recommendations, all visitors are asked to wear face masks while on campus and in the museum and gallery spaces. Fairfield University is also recommending all visitors be vaccinated or be able to provide proof of a negative PCR test within 72 hours of a campus visit. Please note Covid-19 protocols are subject to change, and University policies related to campus access will apply. Updates can be found on the.

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Join us for this special event co-sponsored by the #UNLOAD Foundation. Amy Herman, founder of The Art of Perception Ⓡ, will lead a brief workshop on identifying and understanding visual bias, followed by a panel discussion with community members.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Carrie Mae Weems: The Usual Suspects (Walsh Gallery). About the exhibition: In Carrie Mae Weems: The Usual Suspects, Weems focuses on the humanity denied in recent killings of black men, women, and children by police. She directs our attention to the constructed nature of racial identity—specifically, representations that associate black bodies with criminality. Our imaginings have real—often deadly—outcomes. Blocks of color obscure faces just as our assumptions around race obscure individual humanity. Through a formal language of blurred images, color blocks, stated facts, and meditative narration, Weems directs our attention toward the repeated pattern of judicial inaction—the repeated denials and the repeated lack of acknowledgement.

This exhibition is organized by LSU Museum of Art in collaboration with LSU College of Art + Design, and LSU School of Art. At the Fairfield University Art Museum, this exhibition is made possible by the generous support of the #UNLOAD Foundation. The Mary and Eliza Freeman Center for History and Community is a community partner for the museum’s programming this fall. Learn more about the exhibition here.


Image: Carrie Mae Weems, Laquan: A Timeline, 2018, archival pigment print on gesso board. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
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Quick Center for the Arts, Kelley Theatre, Fairfield, United States

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