The “fourth gallery” in the replica features paintings Bradford created by sanding layers of paper. Photo Credit: Joshua White/NYT

Please join us for our workshop on Black Classicisms in the Visual Arts at the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. The event is taking place offsite at Busboys and Poets, 450 K Street NW from 5:30pm to 8:30pm on Friday, January 3. A shuttle bus will be available to take all who are interested to the venue. Papers will be pre-circulated to all who sign up here.

All are invited to attend the event and to join us for a reception and art exhibit at 8:30pm in the same location.

List of workshop participants:

- Samuel Agbamu, “Metamorphoses in Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You (2018)”

- Margaret Day Elsner, “Sugar Baby’s Riddle: Sphinx or Sibyl?”

- Stefani Echeverria-Fenn, “When and Where I (Don’t) Enter: Afro-Pessimism, The Fungible Object, and Black Queer Representations of Medusa”

- Tom Hawkins, “Centaurs and Equisapiens”

- Stuart McManus, “Frank M. Snowden, Jr. and the Origin of The Image of the Black in Western Art”

- Michele Valerie Ronnick, “‘Every Time I think about Color It’s a Political Statement:’ Classical Elements in the Art of Emma Amos”

- Shelley Haley, respondent

(Thumbnail image: Mark Bradford, “Spoiled Foot.” From the exhibition Tomorrow is Another Day at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra.)