Conversations
Online Sound Bath by KACH Studio: Sonic RETRIEVAL
Leubsdorf Gallery will be open for visitors to The Black Index, 11am–4pm, and for Sound Bath attendees only, 4–5pm.
Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
132 E 68th St New York
Enter from the south side of 68th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues
This event will take place on Zoom during the last hour of The Black Index on view at the Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College. HCAG will also live-stream the sound bath in the Leubsdorf Gallery for those who would like to gather together to experience the sound bath in the gallery. Space is limited for the gallery’s live stream, so please register in advance.
KACH Studio: Sonic Retrieval will offer a sound bath that focuses on grieving in the midst of the pandemic in relation to the traveling exhibition The Black Index’s final journey to Hunter College. Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle’s work on view in the exhibition, The Evanesced: The Untouchables, features 100 un-portraits of disappeared Black femmes created in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. She will be offering a ritual not only to close the exhibition but also to create a sonic space for processing grief. Hinkle will be using a Dark Water and Dusk Gong as well as crystal singing bowls, tuning forks, rattles, and various instruments to offer a virtual experience. Those who want to contemplate the impact of Black death historically and presently can participate via cultivating deep listening as a form of witnessing and inner retrieval.
Global Abolition and Visual Art: A conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Shellyne Rodriguez
Global Abolition and Visual Art: A conversation with Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Shellyne Rodriguez is organized in concert with the exhibitions The Black Index, curated by Bridget R. Cooks (on view at the Leubsdorf Gallery, Feb. 1–April 3, 2022) and No Tears: In Conversation with Horace Pippin (previously on view at The Artist Institute, Nov. 11–Dec. 18, 2021). Following the conversation Brittany Webb, Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth-Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, will join Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Shellyne Rodriguez for a moderated Q & A.
This program is funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Curatorial Lecture by Bridget R. Cooks
Spring 2022 Foundation To-Life, Inc. Arthur and Carol Kaufman Goldberg Visiting Curator Lecture
This event is free, open to the public, and live captioning (CART) and ASL interpretation will be provided. This event will also be live-streamed on Zoom.
Curator and Artists Hours for The Black Index
Join curator Bridget R. Cooks as well as artists Alicia Henry and Dennis Delgado at Leubsdorf Gallery.
This event is free and open to the public. No registration is needed.
Please note all visitors must provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
Artist Talk: Hakeem Adewumi
The Art Galleries at Black Studies (AGBS) invites you to a talk with the artist Hakeem Adewumi. He will discuss his photographic practice and how his work subverts notions of traditional portraiture, just as the artists of The Black Index do so through unexpected and unconventional depictions. Adewumi will be in conversation with Kendyll Gross, the Curator of Public Programs.
Artist Talk: Dennis Delgado and Dr. Simone Browne
The Art Galleries at Black Studies (AGBS) invites you to join a talk with the artist Dennis Delgado, whose work is featured in the exhibition The Black Index. Delgado will be in conversation with Dr. Simone Browne, Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Artists Lava Thomas, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and Bridget Cooks in Conversation
Join us for a special conversation with the two Bay Area artists included in The Black Index.
Virtual Friday Night at the Art Center
Celebrate the premiere of The Black Index at the Palo Alto Art Center with a virtual walkthrough by exhibition curator Bridget R. Cooks, a redaction poetry activity with playwright Leelee Jackson, and a concluding presentation by Palo Alto author Julie Lythcott-Haims.
The Black Index: Archiving Black Creativity and Resistance
Simone Fujita, Bibliographer, African American Art History Initiative at The Getty Research Institute with Krystal Tribbett, Curator for Orange County Regional History, UC Irvine
Presented by The Getty Research Institute
“Analogous”
Exhibiting artist, Alicia Henry, Professor of Art, Fisk University in conversation with Bridget R. Cooks, exhibition curator of The Black Index and Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Art History, University of California, Irvine
“A Study in Blackness and Black Identity”
Cherise Smith, Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies, UT Austin
“The Dark Database: Facial Recognition and its "Failure" to Enroll”
Dennis Delgado, exhibiting artist in The Black Index in conversation with CalvinJohn Smiley, Assistant Professor of Sociology Hunter College
The Black Index: Artists in Conversation
Lava Thomas, artist, with Leigh Raiford, Professor of African American Studies, UC Berkeley; and Whitfield Lovell, artist, with LeRonn Brooks, Curator for Modern and Contemporary Collections, The Getty Research Institute
Presented by The Getty Research Institute
"Black Manicule: Pointing Elsewhere"
Courtney Baker, Associate Professor in the Department of English at UC Riverside.