Cultural Organizing at the Intersections – a talk by Carol Zou

Visual culture does not exist separate from politics, but rather is an integral aspect of the ways in which social, political, and economic shifts occur. This lecture traces the history of United States-based cultural organizing beginning from the civil rights era, and considers tactics and strategies that are relevant to the contemporary sociopolitical climate.

This talk is part of the CSCRE Discussion Series.

Artists/movements examined will include: Emory Douglas and the Black Panther Party, the Chicano art movement, ACT UP, Favianna Rodriguez/CultureStrike, Black Lives Matter, and the presenter's own history of working with grassroots community building in Los Angeles, Dallas, and Philadelphia.

Carol Zou is the program director for the Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia, PA. She is a Texangelena by way of the Chinese diaspora. Her work focuses on layered human geographies, craft as non-western cultural production, and polyvocality through a community organizing model.

Her work ranges from facilitated community collaborations to more personally driven, conceptual works. Notable projects include Trans.lation, an arts and cultural platform initiated by Rick Lowe and commissioned by the Nasher Sculpture Center, located in the immigrant, refugee, African American, and Latinx neighborhood of Vickery Meadow, Dallas, Texas; Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, a collective ranging from 20 to 500 crafters that creates public art through crowdsourced, participatory models; and Michelada Think Tank, a multi-state alliance of creative workers of color that highlights the need for diversity in the creative fields. She is a 2017 inaugural University of Houston College of the Arts-Project Row Houses Fellow.

Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Campus Center, Klingenstein Lounge

Individuals who would like to request accessibility accommodations should contact pbogardus@ithaca.edu. We ask that requests be made as soon as possible to ensure they can be met.

Event Type

Speaker/Lecture/Discussion

Schools

School of Humanities and Sciences

Departments/Offices

Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity (CSCRE)

Website

https://www.ithaca.edu/cscre/CSCREDS/

Cost

Free and Open to the IC Community and to the Public

Contact Email:

pbogardus@ithaca.edu

Contact Phone:

6072741056

Subscribe
Google Calendar iCal Outlook

Recent Activity

Stu Fegely

Stu Fegely 11/16/2017

What is a "Texangelena?"