Acclaimed artist and Columbia University faculty member Kara Walker will lecture about her work today as part of the College of Art and Design’s Manship Lecture Series.
Walker’s art explores issues of race, gender and sexuality through the innovative use of cut-out silhouettes.
“Because Kara Walker’s work deals with issues of race and gender, using historical images of slavery, I felt a responsibility to bring awareness of her powerful, beautiful and provocative work here to the deep South,” said art history professor Kelli Scott Kelley, who organized Walker’s visit, in a news release.
Walker will speak today at 5 p.m. in the Design Building Lecture Hall.
In addition to her speech, Walker will spend the remainder of the week visiting with and consulting students in the School of Art.
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