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SUMMARY:John Jennings: “Go Back and Get It”
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a School of Art & Design Visitors Series talk by award-winning artist and scholar John Jennings (MA ’95\, MFA ’97). The talk will be held on April 20\, 2023\, at 5:30 p.m. in the lower level auditorium of the Krannert Art Museum (500 E. Peabody Drive\, Champaign). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Jennings is an award-winning artist\, visual culture scholar\, designer\, storyteller and cultural activist. \nHis work has helped reenvision how Black subjectivity is constructed\, viewed and theorized in popular media\, fine art\, and the academy. \nIn this talk\, Jennings will examine how the West African concept of “sankofa” has been a lens through which his critical making practice\, his pedagogy and his community-focused organizing has been centered. \nAbout the Artist\nJohn Jennings is a professor\, author\, graphic novelist\, curator\, Harvard Fellow\, New York Times Bestseller\, 2018 Eisner Winner\, and all-around champion of Black culture. \nAs Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside (UCR)\, Jennings examines the visual culture of race in various media forms including film\, illustrated fiction\, and comics and graphic novels. He is also the director of Abrams ComicArts imprint Megascope\, which publishes graphic novels focused on the experiences of people of color. \nHis research interests include the visual culture of Hip Hop\, Afrofuturism and politics\, Visual Literacy\, Horror\, and the EthnoGothic\, and Speculative Design and its applications to visual rhetoric. \nJennings is co-editor of the 2016 Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (Rutgers) and cofounder/organizer of The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. He is cofounder and organizer of the MLK NorCal’s Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco and also SOL-CON: The Brown and Black Comix Expo at The Ohio State University. \nAt Krannert Art Museum\, Jennings co-reated with Damian Duffy the 2008 exhibition and its exhibition catalogue Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics.
URL:https://ccafricanamericanheritage.org/event/john-jennings-go-back-and-get-it/
LOCATION:Krannert Art Museum\, 500 E. Peabody Drive\, Champaign\, Illinois\, 61820
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