Sam Gilliam Lecture Series: Renowned Artist and Social, Civic Innovator Theaster Gates

Description

Join the Hopkins Bloomberg Center for the second installment of the Sam Gilliam Lecture Series featuring Theaster Gates, an artist and professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Visual Arts and the College.

Gates' lecture will draw from his decades-long investment in interrogating the imagined precarity of Black institutions and demonstrating the role that artists can play in enlivening archives as living vehicles for the valorization, amplification, and preservation of under-celebrated histories.

About the Sam Gilliam Lecture Series
The Sam Gilliam Lecture Series welcomes prominent artists and speakers to the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center to reflect on the intersections between contemporary art, academia, and public policy, and the role art plays in advancing society.