The Liminality of Race and Representations of Blackness

Fo Wilson, Chicago-based artist, curator and educator, is the 2017 Paul R. Jones Annual Lecturer and the second distinguished visiting scholar in University of Delaware’s African American Public History and Material Culture series. Her current long-term installations include, Eliza’s Peculiar Cabinet of Curiosities, at the Lynden Sculpture Garden in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Sounding Bronzeville, a public work commissioned by the Field Museum and Chicago Park District in the park’s Burnham Wildlife Corridor in Chicago.

Wilson will be on campus March 13-15th to meet with students, faculty and staff, lead a workshop on the intersection of material culture and art, and deliver a public lecture. Fo Wilson’s talk, The Liminality of Race and Representations of Blackness, is Tuesday, March 14th, 4 PM at Bayard Sharp Hall. The presentation is free and open to the public.

The Paul R. Jones Lecture is an annual event. Wilson’s campus visit is co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Paul R. Jones Initiative, the IHRC and the University Museums.