*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, all remaining events will be moved online. Please check back for more details regarding individual events.*
Spring 2020 Schedule
Arts + Design Thursdays: Public Art and Belonging
Thursday, January 23, 2020
Monument Lab: Process and Power in Public Art
Paul M. Farber (Artistic Director and Co-founder, Monument Lab)
Thursday, January 30, 2020
We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race, Resegregation, and Public Arts
Jeff Chang (Author, Vice President, Race Forward)
Thursday, February 6, 2020
Navigating the Landscape of Public Art
Lava Thomas (Artist), Mildred Howard (Artist, Activist, Educator)
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Soft Power
Eungie Joo (Curator, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
400 Years of Resistance to Slavery and Injustice: Black Public Art
Rodney Leon (Founder and Principal, Leon Architects PLLC)
POSTPONED - Thursday, February 20, 2020
Vision & Justice: Art, Race, and Power in a Contested Democracy
Sarah Lewis (Associate Professor, Harvard University)
MOVED ONLINE - Thursday, March 12, 2020
Dignidad Rebelde
Melanie Cervantes (Artist), Jesus Barraza (Artist)
POSTPONED - Thursday, March 19, 2020
Food Justice and Belonging: A Demonstration and Conversation
Bryant Terry (Chef, Educator, Author)
MOVED ONLINE - Thursday, April 2, 2020
Ronni Favors
Ronni Favors (Rehearsal Director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater)
MOVED ONLINE - Tuesday, April 7, 2020
The New Eagle Creek Saloon
Sadie Barnette (Artist), Dena Beard (Executive Director, The Lab)
MOVED ONLINE - Thursday, April 9, 2020
mak-huššištak / Our Vision
Vincent Medina (Co-founder, mak-'amham and Cafe Ohlone), Louis Trevino (Co-founder, mak-'amham and Cafe Ohlone)
MOVED ONLINE - Thursday, April 16, 2020
Social Engineer: The Artist as Bridge Builder
Cannupa Hanska Luger (Artist)
MOVED ONLINE - Thursday, April 23, 2020
Breaking Down the Gates: A Conversation About Curation and Inclusion in the Arts
Gerald Casel (Artist, Director, Gerald Casel Dance), Dustin H. Chinn (Playwright), Maria Jenson (Creative and Executive Director, SOMArts), Miyuki Baker (Artist, Activist)
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This lecture series explores relationships between art and belonging, with a focus on race. Might more art remind us of the forgotten, excluded, and devalued contributions of marginalized people to our rich history, or is public art merely a way to manage multiculturalism and silence dissent? How would Berkeley look if art and design were used to create spaces of care for relationships of justice and equity? Join a range of artists and thinkers to investigate how publics might be represented by, formulated through, or critiqued in artworks. For more information, visit artsdesign.berkeley.edu.
Arts + Design Thursdays is made possible thanks to support from the Big Ideas Courses Program in the College of Letters & Science at UC Berkeley and from generous supporters of Berkeley Arts + Design. In-kind support is provided by BAMPFA.