SHELLYNE RODRIGUEZ is an artist, teacher, agitator, and community organizer from the Bronx. These multiple roles have converged and have been in conflict in myriad ways throughout the years and have sown lessons as well as unanswered questions. Join us for a candid discussion of Shellyne’s experiences as a community organizer and an artist.
madison moore will discuss visual cultures of fashion using the Beinecke Library’s collection of 212 shopping bags, ca. 1978-2005.
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Beinecke Library’s Melissa Barton, Nancy Kuhl, Tubyez Cropper, and Michael Morand will speak on seven of the authors, artists, and activists photographed by Carl Van Vechten and whose images are included in a new outdoor display on the library’s ground floor windows.
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Bayeté Ross Smith, photographer, artist, and education worker, will discuss his work, now on view in the show “Who Governs” at Artspace in New Haven, where it is in conversation with digitized images of materials from Beinecke Library collections.
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Beinecke Library’s Melissa Barton, Nancy Kuhl, and Tubyez Cropper will speak on some of the authors, artists, and activists photographed by Carl Van Vechten and whose images are included in a new outdoor display on the library’s ground floor windows.
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A conversation with Lausan.
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Anya Montiel, curator of American and Native American women’s art and craft, jointly at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian, will speak on the artists’ books of Rick Bartow. Bartow (1946 – 2016), an enrolled member of the Mad River Band of Wiyot Indians, is considered one of the most important leaders in contemporary Native American art.
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Victoria Lomasko is an artist, journalist and writer who has described her preferred genre or medium less as documentary comics or graphic novellas than live “graphic reporting.” Born in Serpukhov, Lomasko graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts with a specialty in in graphic art and book design. A fixture at Moscow’s protests and political trials, Lomasko exposes the inequality and injustice at the heart of contemporary Russian society and gives voice to Russia’s many voiceless citizens.
On the eve of election day, the weekly gallery talk series will feature a special set of readings by Yale faculty, students, and staff of prose and poetry from the collections that speak from the past, in the present, to the future. Drawn from library collections, readings will include works by Langston Hughes, Rachel Carson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Robert Penn Warren, and James Baldwin, and selections from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Vinson Cunningham, staff writer for The New Yorker, will discuss Jean Toomer and his unproduced play from 1935, “A Drama of the Southwest.”
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Toomer was, in Cunningham’s description, amodernist poet, novelist, religious omnivore, and occasional playwright .”
