Blair Ebony Smith: "New Life: New Room: Making Homemade Space for/with Black Girls"
- Event Type
- Exhibition
- Sponsor
- Gender & Women's Studies
- Virtual
- Date
- Apr 7, 2021 2:30 - 4:00 pm
- Speaker
- Blair Ebony Smith
- Registration
- Registration
- sbs@illinois.edu
- Views
- 17
- Originating Calendar
- Campus Humanities Calendar
During this talk, Blair Ebony Smith will interactively engage her current exhibition on view at the Krannert Art Museum, Homemade With Love: More Living Room, a multimedia publicly engaged installation exploring Black girls, women, and femmes everyday interior life and creativity and what it means to make space for it, specifically in a museum context. Blair Ebony Smith is a post-doc fellow in art education with the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign (2019-21). Her curatorial and artistic praxis is focused on Black girl celebration, Black feminist poetics, sound art, and design with Black girls locally and worldwide.