The University of Hartford Humanities Lecture Series for Spring 2024, focusing on the theme “Fiction, Fabulation, Futurity,” continues on Monday, March 25, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., in the Greenberg Center (E307 of HJG Center).
The sixth talk in the series, “Toward Joy: Black Feminist Speculation and the American Art Museum,” will be given by Stephanie Sparling Williams, the Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art for the Brooklyn Museum. In advance of the landmark transformation of the Brooklyn Museum’s American Art wing, Sparling Williams will offer a conceptual and methodological sneak preview into the Black Feminist frameworks that will shape contemporary visitor experiences within the Museum’s historic collection galleries. Building on a rich legacy of Black women’s rigorous space-making practices, Sparling Williams will posit a capacious understanding of representation within American art museums, and more speculative and experiential encounters with the collections therein.
The Humanities Center Lecture series is developed and led by Rashmi Viswanathan, Assistant Professor of Art History. For more information, contact Nicholas Ealy, director of the Humanities Center (ealy@hartford.edu), visit our website, or follow us on Facebook.