SYMPOSIUM: Teaching/Learning with Lorraine O'Grady's Both/And Friday, February 9, 2024 - 10:00am to 5:00pmCollins CinemaFree and open to the public
10:00 a.m.- 5:00p.m Daylong symposium
Livestream will be available here.
Recording of the Symposium will be posted to YouTube
Since studying Spanish and Economics at Wellesley, Lorraine O’Grady ‘55 has worked as a government analyst, fiction writer, translator, rock critic, literature professor—and conceptual artist. Her multidisciplinary perspective continues to shape her incisive writing and artwork, and thinkers from many fields have learned from her explorations of Black female subjectivity, hybridity, and diaspora through the theoretical framework of Both/And. During this daylong symposium, participants will experience O’Grady’s oeuvre as a launching point for their own critical examinations of race, gender, history, and the present. The event celebrates the publication of an e-book of the same name, which includes writings by O’Grady, art critics, and members of the Wellesley community that reflect on how they teach and learn with Lorraine O'Grady's Both/And.
Schedule
9-9:45 a.m.: Tour of Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And with Dr. Jessica Orzulak
Limited to 20 people
Sign up here.
Focus on O’Grady’s use of photography in this tour with Dr. Jessica Orzulak, the Linda Wyatt Gruber 66' Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Davis. Please gather at 8:45 am, in the Davis Museum lobby, 15 minutes ahead of the 9 am start time. This tour, limited to 15 people, is the first event in the Teaching/Learning with Lorraine O’Grady’s Both/And Symposium.
10 a.m.-10:10 a.m.: Welcoming remarks
10:15 a.m -11:45 a.m.: Both/And in the Wellesley Classroom
Chaired by Dr. Semente, the Curator of Education and Public Programs at the Davis, this panel presents faculty perspectives on teaching with O’Grady’s art in classrooms across campus. Panelists include, Rhonda Gray ‘95, Instructor in Physical Education, Recreation and Athletics, Dr. Liseli A. Fitzpatrick, Lecturer in Africana Studies, Dr. Erin Battat, Lecturer in the Writing Program, Noely Irineu Silva, International first-year student at Wellesley College from Brazil, and Dr. Nikki A. Greene, Associate Professor of Art and Curator of Taking the White Gloves Off: A Performance Art Series in Honor of Lorraine O'Grady ‘55.
Noon-2 p.m.: Lunch Break
Noon-12:45 p.m.: Tour of Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And with Dr. Amanda Gilvin
Limited to 20 people
Sign up here.
Learn how O’Grady’s papers, which she donated to the Wellesley College Archives in 2013, inform our understanding of her artwork by joining this tour with Dr. Amanda Gilvin, Sonja Novak Koerner '51 Senior Curator of Collections and Assistant Director of Curatorial Affairs. Please gather at 11:45 am, in the Davis Museum lobby, 15 minutes ahead of the 12 pm start time. This tour, limited to 15 people, is an event in the Teaching/Learning with Lorraine O’Grady’s Both/And Symposium.
1:00 p.m.-1:45 p.m. Tour of Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And with Dr. Semente
Limited to 20 people
Sign up here.
Explore how O’Grady’s work dialogues with themes of identity, Black womanhood, and the African diaspora with Dr. Semente, Curator of Education and Public Programs at the Davis. Please gather at 12:45 pm, in the Davis Museum lobby, 15 minutes ahead of the 1 pm start time. This tour, limited to 15 people, is an event in the Teaching/Learning with Lorraine O’Grady’s Both/And Symposium.
2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.: Curatorial Talk: Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And
Introduced by Amanda Gilvin, Sonja Novak Koerner '51 Senior Curator of Collections and Assistant Director of Curatorial Affairs
Exhibition curator Catherine Morris, Sackler Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, discusses working with Aruna D’Souza, W.W. Corcoran Professor of Social Engagement at the Corcoran School of Art, George Washington University, and Lorraine O’Grady ‘55 on this important first retrospective of the artist’s work.
4 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Taking the White Gloves Off: A Performance Art Series in Honor of Lorraine O'Grady ‘55: M. Lamar
Friday, February 9, 2024 -
10:00am to 5:00pm
Collins Cinema
Free and open to the public
10:00 a.m.- 5:00p.m Daylong symposium
Livestream will be available here.
Recording of the Symposium will be posted to YouTube
Since studying Spanish and Economics at Wellesley, Lorraine O’Grady ‘55 has worked as a government analyst, fiction writer, translator, rock critic, literature professor—and conceptual artist. Her multidisciplinary perspective continues to shape her incisive writing and artwork, and thinkers from many fields have learned from her explorations of Black female subjectivity, hybridity, and diaspora through the theoretical framework of Both/And. During this daylong symposium, participants will experience O’Grady’s oeuvre as a launching point for their own critical examinations of race, gender, history, and the present. The event celebrates the publication of an e-book of the same name, which includes writings by O’Grady, art critics, and members of the Wellesley community that reflect on how they teach and learn with Lorraine O'Grady's Both/And.
Schedule
9-9:45 a.m.: Tour of Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And with Dr. Jessica Orzulak
Limited to 20 people
Sign up here.
Focus on O’Grady’s use of photography in this tour with Dr. Jessica Orzulak, the Linda Wyatt Gruber 66' Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Davis. Please gather at 8:45 am, in the Davis Museum lobby, 15 minutes ahead of the 9 am start time. This tour, limited to 15 people, is the first event in the Teaching/Learning with Lorraine O’Grady’s Both/And Symposium.
10 a.m.-10:10 a.m.: Welcoming remarks
10:15 a.m -11:45 a.m.: Both/And in the Wellesley Classroom
Chaired by Dr. Semente, the Curator of Education and Public Programs at the Davis, this panel presents faculty perspectives on teaching with O’Grady’s art in classrooms across campus. Panelists include, Rhonda Gray ‘95, Instructor in Physical Education, Recreation and Athletics, Dr. Liseli A. Fitzpatrick, Lecturer in Africana Studies, Dr. Erin Battat, Lecturer in the Writing Program, Noely Irineu Silva, International first-year student at Wellesley College from Brazil, and Dr. Nikki A. Greene, Associate Professor of Art and Curator of Taking the White Gloves Off: A Performance Art Series in Honor of Lorraine O'Grady ‘55.
Noon-2 p.m.: Lunch Break
Noon-12:45 p.m.: Tour of Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And with Dr. Amanda Gilvin
Limited to 20 people
Sign up here.
Learn how O’Grady’s papers, which she donated to the Wellesley College Archives in 2013, inform our understanding of her artwork by joining this tour with Dr. Amanda Gilvin, Sonja Novak Koerner '51 Senior Curator of Collections and Assistant Director of Curatorial Affairs. Please gather at 11:45 am, in the Davis Museum lobby, 15 minutes ahead of the 12 pm start time. This tour, limited to 15 people, is an event in the Teaching/Learning with Lorraine O’Grady’s Both/And Symposium.
1:00 p.m.-1:45 p.m. Tour of Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And with Dr. Semente
Limited to 20 people
Sign up here.
Explore how O’Grady’s work dialogues with themes of identity, Black womanhood, and the African diaspora with Dr. Semente, Curator of Education and Public Programs at the Davis. Please gather at 12:45 pm, in the Davis Museum lobby, 15 minutes ahead of the 1 pm start time. This tour, limited to 15 people, is an event in the Teaching/Learning with Lorraine O’Grady’s Both/And Symposium.
2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.: Curatorial Talk: Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And
Introduced by Amanda Gilvin, Sonja Novak Koerner '51 Senior Curator of Collections and Assistant Director of Curatorial Affairs
Exhibition curator Catherine Morris, Sackler Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, discusses working with Aruna D’Souza, W.W. Corcoran Professor of Social Engagement at the Corcoran School of Art, George Washington University, and Lorraine O’Grady ‘55 on this important first retrospective of the artist’s work.
4 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Taking the White Gloves Off: A Performance Art Series in Honor of Lorraine O'Grady ‘55: M. Lamar