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Visiting Lecturer – Online | Three Eras of African American Art: The Harlem Renaissance, The Black Arts Movement, and Post-Black Art
March 5 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
$15.00
The Harlem Renaissance was an African American art movement that began in the 1920s, the Black Arts Movement was another that occurred in the 1960s and 70s, and Post-Black Art is a movement that started in the 1990s. This lecture will survey African American art over the course of 100 years through three movements, highlighting the most prominent artists of the times and looking closely at their art.
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Shantay Robinson is a Writing and Rhetoric doctoral student at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. In addition to teaching English Composition and Professional and Technical Writing, she taught Writing for Artists in the College of Art and Design at GMU.
She was a participant in the inaugural class of Burnaway Magazine’s Art Writers Mentorship Program, as well as a fellow in Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies Digital Publishing Project Editorial Fellowship and was chosen for the CUE Art Foundation’s Art Critic Mentoring program. In 2019, she sat on a panel at Prizm Art Fair during Miami Art Week. In 2020, she served as visual arts judge in Shreveport Regional Council’s Critical Mass 8 Art Competition.