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A+D Visitor Series: Jim McDowell “American Face Jugs: Thoughts Become Art Inspired by the Ancestors”

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Sponsored by Art + Design Visitors Committee, HRI Supplemental Event Fund, African American Studies, Department of History, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Krannert Art Museum
Date
Sep 16, 2021   5:30 pm  
Speaker
Jim McDowell, Ceramic Artist
Registration
Registration
Contact
Krannert Art Museum
E-Mail
kam-info@illinois.edu
Phone
217-333-1861
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Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

In his artist’s lecture, Jim McDowell will discuss his face jugs. They represent, in part, the lives of enslaved people abducted from Africa, and their descendants who lived through slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow South, the Great Migration, the Civil Rights era on into today's Black Lives Matter movement.

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