Sampada Aranke, Scholar in Residence, Manetti Shrem Museum, and Dan Nadel, Curator at Large, Manetti Shrem Museum, will host a colloquium for the Cultural Studies Graduate Group on Curating Black Rage and Black Utopias: Mike Henderson, Before the Fire, 1965-1985. This zoom event will be held Thursday, March 10 from 4-6 pm (PST).

This talk will provide an overview of the coming exhibition in January 2023 at the Manetti Shrem Museum featuring the works of Professor Emeritus Mike Henderson. “Mike Henderson: Before the Fire, 1965-1985″ will explore Henderson’s paintings and films which depict scenes of antiblack violence, heteromasculinity, and abject social conditions as well as utopic visions, questions of self-making, and formal narrative studies of painting and film. Henderson’s ambidextrous practice examined and offered new ideas about Black life in the visual languages of protest, Afro-futurism, and surrealism. These works, which resolutely challenge the protocols and propriety of art-making in the 20th century, are both formally and politically striking as well as reflective of a past not so far away from our historical present. 

Register for this event here.