Crossroads in the Study of the Americas : Visions of Freedom

12/13/2008
Visions of Freedom

Presentations by eminent artists & scholars:
* Nelson Stevens
* Richard Yarde
* Margo Crawford
* Mario Ontiveros

Former UMass Professor Nelson Stevens directed the creation of more than thirty public murals in Springfield in the 1970s.

Professor Yarde, in the UMass Art Department since 1990, has been a signal presence in the art world since the mid-1960s.

Professor Crawford is a faculty member in UMass’s Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies and Professor Ontiveros is in the UMass Art Department’s Art History Program.

Together they will discuss how African American visual artists in the 1960s & 1970s collaborated with black writers, dancers, musicians, theater workers, filmmakers, and other community people, to give African American art an unprecedented prominence and to find new ways to bring art to the community in Springfield and all across the United States. It will also engage how these artists and their work engaged political movements working for African American empowerment.

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	12/13/2008 Visions of Freedom Presentations by eminent artists & scholars: * Nelson Stevens * Richard Yarde * Margo Crawford * Mario Ontiveros Former UMass Professor Nelson Stevens directed the creation of more than thirty public murals in Springfield in the 1970s. Professor Yarde, in the UMass Art Department since 1990, has been a signal presence in the art world since the mid-1960s. Professor Crawford is a faculty member in UMass’s Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies and Professor Ontiveros is in the UMass Art Department’s Art History Program. Together they will discuss how African American visual artists in the 1960s & 1970s collaborated with black writers, dancers, musicians, theater workers, filmmakers, and other community people, to give African American art an unprecedented prominence and to find new ways to bring art to the community in Springfield and all across the United States. It will also engage how these artists and their work engaged political movements working for African American empowerment. See flyer below for more details. More Information download file >