Saturday's James A. Porter Colloquium Proceedings (In Person)

The 33rd Annual James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art and Art of the African DiasporaDates: April 13-15, 2023

Shaping Space: African American Artists in Public Art and Private Collections

LOCATIONS :

• April 13, 2023- The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora, University of Maryland, College Park (In-Person and Live-streamed)
• April 14, 2023- National Gallery of Art-Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (the Center), East Building Auditorium (In-Person)
• April 15, 2023- Howard University Gallery of Art & Howard University College of Medicine Auditorium (In-Person and Live-streamed)

Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees

• Melvin Edwards
• Martha Jackson Jarvis
• Keith Morrison
• Uzikee Nelson

Humanitarian Award Honorees

• Dr. Walter O. Evans & Mrs. Linda J. Evans

James A. Porter Book Award Recipients

• Dr. Cheryl Finley, Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon (Princeton University Press, 2018)
• Dr. Rebecca Van Diver, Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness (Pennsylvania State University Press 2020)

Formal Proceedings for the 33rd James A. Porter Colloquium

April 13 , 2023 (Thursday)—David C. Driskell Lecture at the David C. Driskell Center at University of Maryland, College Park

5 PM-8PMRinggold|Saar: Meeting on the Matrix Program + Porter Colloquium Distinguished Lecture (in collaboration with Howard University)

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/david-c-driskell-center-2023-lecture-series-tickets-591726418647

5.00- 5.45 PM: Panel Discussion: No Q and A. Live event in Gallery (ASL interpreter as needed)

• Introduction by David Bringham
• Curlee Raven Holton
• Latoya Hobbs

6PM- 7PM : David C. Driskell Distinguished Lecture Professor Jordana Moore SaggeseLive event in Gallery (ASL interpreter as needed)

• Introduction by Curlee R Holton
• David C. Driskell Distinguished Lecture Professor Jordana Moore Saggese

Reception to Follow

April 14, 2023 Friday National Gallery of Art-Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (the Center), proceedings in NGA East BuildingRegistration: https://www.nga.gov/calendar/lectures/colloquia/shaping-space-african-american-artists-public-art-private-collections.html/2023/04/14/1015

10:15-10:30 Opening Remarks:

• Steven Nelson, Dean of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art
• Phylicia Rashad, Dean of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts, National Gallery of Art
• Raimi Gbadamosi, Chair of the Department of Art, Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts

Day Moderator: Melanee C. Harvey, Chair of the James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora

10:30am-11:00am Opening Lecture Mabel O. Wilson, Nancy and George Rupp Professor, Columbia University

Lecture Title: “Unknown, Unknown: A Provisional Architecture of Black Commemoration”

11:00am-12:00 pm Panel Discussion: Building the Change We Seek: Art and Architecture

12:00pm-12:30pm Screening of Short Documentary on Uzikee Nelson, Lifetime Award Recipient

12:30-2:00 pm LUNCH (on your own)

2:00pm -2:30 Shaping Space-A Conversation:Keith Morrison, Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient and Camille Brown, Assistant Curator, The Phillips Collection

2:30-3:00 Keynote Artist Lecture:

Melvin Edwards, Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient with subsequent conversation facilitated by Tobias Wofford, Associate Professor of Art History, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University

3:00-3:45 James A. Porter Distinguished Lecture:

Renee Ater, Provost Visiting Associate Professor, Africana Studies, Brown University Lecture Title: “Public Art as Community Praxis”

3:45-4:15 Floyd Coleman Distinguished Artist Conversation: Martha Jackson Jarvis, Lifetime Achievement Recipient, in conversation with Njena Jarvis

4:15-4:30 Concluding Remarks

April 15, 2023 Saturday–Howard University-College of Medicine Third Floor Auditorium (Masks are Required)

Saturday’s programming is dedicated to the Ronald W. and Patricia Walters Collection Symposium, organized in conjunction with the Howard University Gallery of Art exhibition, Genesis: The African American Experience. The Ronald W. & Patricia Turner Walters Collection

Registration: Below

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Continental Breakfast at Childers Hall at Howard University & Viewing of the Walters Collection Exhibition at the Howard University Gallery Art

10:30 – 10: 45 Depart for College of Medicine Auditorium for Colloquium Proceedings

10:45- Opening Remarks

Prof. Kathryn Coney-Ali & Dr. Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet, Co-Directors of Howard University Gallery of Art

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Panel Discussion: Sustaining a Tradition: Collecting African American Art

• Myrtis Bedolla, Curators, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, Maryland
• Dr. Walter O. Evans, Collector of African American Art, Literature and Ephemera
• Mrs. Linda J. Evans, Collector of African American Art and Literature and Ephemera
• Dr. Vanessa Thaxton-Ward, Executive Director, Hampton University Museum
• Dr. Lela Johnson Sewell-Williams, Curator of Manuscript Division, The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University
• Scott W. Baker, Assistant Director, Howard University Gallery of Art
• Mrs. Patricia Turner Walters, Collector of African American Art
• Moderator: Prof. Kathryn Coney-Ali, Co-Director of Howard University Gallery of Art

12:15 – 1:30 PM Lunch (On Your Own)

1:30-2:30 Research Presentations: Art History in Progress: Student Research Panel

Panel Moderator: Dr. Abby Eron, Registrar, Howard University Gallery of Art

2:30pm – 4:00pm Panel Discussion: Black Artists in Dialogue

Akili Ron Anderson, Associate Professor, Howard University

Jessica Marie Hopkins, Artist, Washington DC

Delita Martin, Artist, Houston, Texas

James Phillips, Associate Professor, Howard University

Richard Ward, Artist & Director, HETConnect Studios

Preston Sampson, Artist, Washington, DC

Kevin Cole, Artist, The Compound Studios, Georgia

Moderator: Associate Dean Gwendolyn Everett, Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts & Prof. Kathryn Coney-Ali, Co-Director of Howard University Gallery of Art

4:30 PM - 4:45/5:00 PM: Closing Remarks

Host or Publisher Department of Art, Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts