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.