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Blair Ebony Smith: "New Life: New Room: Making Homemade Space for/with Black Girls"

Event Type
Exhibition
Sponsor
Gender & Women's Studies
Virtual
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Date
Apr 7, 2021   2:30 - 4:00 pm  
Speaker
Blair Ebony Smith
Registration
Registration
E-Mail
sbs@illinois.edu
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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.

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