A Stirring Song Sung Heroic: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom, 1619 to 1865

Time: Jan. 29, 2019, 2:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.

Location: Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building

William Earle Williams (Haverford College)

Photographer and curator William Earle Williams presents an Artist Talk in correlation to the SUArt Galleries exhibition, A Stirring Song Sung Heroic: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom, 1619 to 1865. Williams' photographs have been widely exhibited at venues including the National Gallery of Art, Cleveland Art Museum, and the African American Museum, and are in many public collections including the National Gallery of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has curated over eighty exhibitions featuring the work of Diane Arbus, Walker Evans, Paul Strand, and Harold Edgerton among others.

This exhibition presents the history of American slavery across a series of 135 black and white silver gelatin prints.  These images document mostly anonymous, unheralded, and uncelebrated places in the New World—from the Caribbean to North America—where Americans black and white determined the meaning of freedom. Archives of prints, newspapers, and other ephemera related to the struggle accompany the work.

A Gallery Reception follows the event, from 5-7 p.m.

Additional supporters:

• SUArt Galleries
• Coalition of Museum and Art Centers
• Department of Transmedia, Transmedia Colloquium Lecture Series

 

Emily Dittman, SUArt Galleries