Tag: Deborah Willis

  • Nation & World

    Picturing vision and justice

    A meeting of experts and scholars from Harvard and beyond organized by assistant professor Sarah Lewis will “consider the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice.”

    13 minutes
    Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies Sarah Lewis
  • Nation & World

    Spotlight on black identity

    A new take on Black History Month at Harvard initiates a conversation about evolving black identity, through the lenses of Africa and art history.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Art, turned on its ear

    Photographer and arts historian Deborah Willis launches the Hutchins Center’s spring series of noontime lectures with a look at modern artists and their radical, racial alterations of iconic art.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Black like we

    A panel discussion introduced an exhibit of photos from the Paris World’s Fair of 1900 that shows African-Americans as they wished to be depicted, not as a discriminatory American society would have had them be.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Forever free,’ with caveats

    Scholars gathered at Harvard to discuss the Emancipation Proclamation and African-American service during the Civil War.

    7 minutes