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Participate in a discussion about the lyricism in the poetry of Jayne Cortez and her work to advance the causes of the Black Arts Movement with Tobias Wofford, professor of art history at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Artist Enrique Chagoya draws on a range of media, including the conventions of cartoons and pre-Columbian codices, to craft powerful and vibrant political, social, and economic commentary. In conversation with art historian and critic Ruben Cordova, Chagoya will discuss his work and the way he uses visual language as a weapon of critique, centering on his work Histoire Naturelle des Espécies: Illegal Alien’s Manuscript (2008) in the exhibition Protest and Promise.
Image: Enrique Chagoya (American, born Mexico, 1953), Histoire Naturelle des Espécies (Natural History of the Species): Illegal Alien’s Manuscript, 2008. Color lithograph. Gift of Linda Cheverton Wick and Walter Wick
Learn about important moments that have been enshrined or underrepresented in the history of art through specific works of art in the collections of the Wadsworth with Janna Israel, Adult and Academic Programs Manager. Virtual program. Advance registration required. $10; $5 members.
Virtual series takes place over five Sundays, January 10 through February 7. Registration payment covers all five sessions. Participants will be emailed a link prior to January 10 to attend the series.
Virtuoso guitarist Daniel Salazar has cultivated a repertoire of classical, Latin American, and Spanish guitar music that thrills local and international audiences. Join Salazar for a musical interlude performed virtually from the galleries of the Wadsworth Atheneum as he finds inspiration in collection highlights.
Learn about important moments that have been enshrined or underrepresented in the history of art through specific works of art in the collections of the Wadsworth with Janna Israel, Adult and Academic Programs Manager. Virtual program. Advance registration required. $10; $5 members.
Virtual series takes place over five Sundays, January 10 through February 7. Registration payment covers all five sessions. Participants will be emailed a link prior to January 10 to attend the series.
Artist Sonya Clark uses the Confederate Battle Flag to examine how the symbols of white supremacy and slavery haunt us. Join a brief presentation about the concept anchoring the Wadsworth’s recent acquisition of Sonya Clark’s Blackened and Bleached (2015) to consider how Clark challenges the resonant power of the Confederate flag and how her interventions complicate history, conservation, and preservation. Co-Sponsored with the Costume and Textile Society of the Wadsworth Atheneum.
Learn about important moments that have been enshrined or underrepresented in the history of art through specific works of art in the collections of the Wadsworth with Janna Israel, Adult and Academic Programs Manager. Virtual program. Advance registration required. $10; $5 members.
Virtual series takes place over five Sundays, January 10 through February 7. Registration payment covers all five sessions. Participants will be emailed a link prior to January 10 to attend the series.
Celebrate Black heritage and culture by creating art with educator Lauren Little, listening to stories, and watching a virtual puppet theater show by artist Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins. Digital activity pack includes art-making demonstrations, visual scavenger hunts, close looking prompts, and story time in English and Spanish. Available on the second Saturday of the month and afterwards.
Second Saturdays for Families is supported by Aetna. Additional support is provided by the Ensworth Charitable Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee, the George A. and Grace L. Long Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Co-Trustee, and the Charles Nelson Robinson Fund, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee.
Gretchen Gerzina, professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, excavates biographical details to capture the Black experience in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America and Britain. Join Gerzina for a fascinating discussion about narratives and portraits to shed light on the definitions of freedom and enslavement when slavery was institutionalized, touching on the Wadsworth’s eighteenth-century painting Portrait of Two Women by Stephen Slaughter.
Image: Stephen Slaughter, Portrait of Two Women, 1700s. Oil on canvas. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund
The Amistad Center possesses a dynamic collection of books that range from first editions to manuscripts, fiction, non-fiction, children’s books, Abolitionist tracts, and volumes that represent the Civil Rights Movement. Explore the collection with Daniel Broyld, professor of history at Central Connecticut State University, to understand how the Amistad book collections connect the Black experiences of the past to the present. Co-Sponsored with The Amistad Center for Art & Culture and the Wadsworth Atheneum.
