Conversation | The Art of Syd Carpenter - Philadelphia Event
Conversation | The Art of Syd Carpenter
Conversation | The Art of Syd Carpenter
with Syd Carpenter and art historians, Leslie King-Hammond and Lowery Stoke Sims Join art historians Lowery Stokes Sims and Leslie King Hammond for a conversation with artist Syd Carpenter about her retrospective, Place, Time, and Memory. Together they will delve into Carpenter’s innovative ceramic practice, examining how her work engages African American history, land and agriculture, the human body, and the elemental materiality of clay. This discussion offers an expansive look at five decades of Carpenter’s influential career, contextualizing her iconography and symbolism within the framework of African American art. Lowery Stokes Sims, is an art historian, curator and writer on modern and contemporary art and artists. She served on the education and curatorial staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1972-1999 and then as executive director, president and adjunct curator at The Studio Museum in Harlem from 2000-2007. Since the 1970s she has fostered diversification and opportunity for artists having been a witness to and participant in the black arts movement, the feminist art movement and the politics of postmodernism and beyond. Leslie King-Hammond is an artist, curator, and graduate dean emeritus and founding director of the Center for Race and Culture at the Maryland Institute College of Art. In 2006 King-Hammond was appointed chairperson of the collections and exhibits committee at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture and in 2007 she became the chairperson of the board of the Lewis Museum. She also sits on the board of the Creative Alliance for the Artists, Baltimore, MD. $15 (FREE Woodmere Members)
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with Syd Carpenter and art historians, Leslie King-Hammond and Lowery Stoke Sims Join art historians Lowery Stokes Sims and Leslie King Hammond for a conversation with artist Syd Carpenter about her retrospective, Place, Time, and Memory. Together they will delve into Carpenter’s innovative ceramic practice, examining how her work engages African American history, land and agriculture, the human body, and the elemental materiality of clay. This discussion offers an expansive look at five decades...
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Conversation | The Art of Syd Carpenter starts at 2:00 p.m. and ends at 3:00 p.m.
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