Decolonial Strategies for the Art History Classroom
Departmental Workshop
October 27, 2021
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Address
Chicago, IL 60612
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The workshop will be moderated by Ana Tuazon (a writer and independent curator based in Brooklyn) and Dr. Amber Hickey (Assistant Professor of American Studies at Colby College).
The workshop is co-organized by AHGSA and Racial Justice Task Force, and supported by the School of Art and Art History and the Department of Art History.
Please email arthistory@uic.edu for the zoom link!
Bios of Speakers
Ana Tuazon is a writer and independent curator based in Brooklyn, NY. She has written on the intersection of American art and social movements and artists' anti-racist and decolonial activist work from the 1960s to the present. Ana has co-curated exhibitions in collaboration with Interference Archive, No Longer Empty, and NXTHVN, and as a critical studies fellow with the Museum of Fine Arts Houston’s Core Program, she organized the exhibition Rewrite the World at the MFAH’s Glassell School of Art. She has presented at conferences including the College Art Association and Theorizing the Web, and has written for publications such as Artforum, Frieze, and Art in America. Ana currently teaches in the School of Art, Design History and Theory at Parsons.
Amber Hickey is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and American Studies at Colby College, and holds a PhD in Visual Studies from the University of California – Santa Cruz. Their work focuses on Contemporary Art and Activism with particular attention to Indigenous Visual Culture and Environmental Justice Movements. Their research appears in the special issue of World Art on Indigenous Futurisms (2019), Aperture (2020), the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest (2017, 2020), Violence and Indigenous Communities: Confronting the Past, Engaging the Present (Northwestern University Press, 2021), and The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change (2021). They are cofounder (with Laura Sachiko Fugikawa) of Colby College’s American Studies Program’s Critical Indigenous Studies Initiative.
Date posted
Sep 16, 2021
Date updated
Oct 22, 2021
Speakers
Ana Tuazon | Writer and Independent Creator
