Nikki A. Greene, photo credit to Melissa Blackall
The School of Art in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences is pleased to welcome art historian Nikki A. Greene, Associate Professor of Art History at Wellesley College, to the Fall Guest Lecture Series. Greene examines African and Afro-American identities, music, the body, and feminism in the 20th century and contemporary art and will present a lecture titled The (im)permanence of Black Femme collaborationsat 5:30 pm on Thursday, November 3 via Zoom.
In addition to her professorship at Wellesley College, Greene is serving as an advisor to ICA Boston for the 59th Venice Biennale featuring the work of Simone Leigh for the United States Pavilion in 2022.
“We are delighted to welcome and introduce Dr. Greene to the students of the University of Arkansas School of Art and community,” said Ana Pulido Rull, associate professor of art history. “He has invaluable knowledge and experience to share, including one of his most recent projects documenting performances by multidisciplinary artist Tsedaye Makonnen and performance artist Ayana Evans at the Venice Biennale.”
Greene has traveled throughout the United States and internationally to lecture on the arts of the African Diaspora. He is the recipient of the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in African Art and Studies at Wellesley College, the Woodrow Wilson Career Advancement Fellowship, an artist residency at the Ucross Foundation, and the Richard D. Cohen Fellowship at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
She is co-producer of the film, When we met, which premiered in January 2021, a three-minute film based on an extraordinary vision of María Magdalena Campos-Pons, moved by the election of Kamala Harris as vice president-elect of the United States and directed by the talented filmmaker Codie Elaine Oliver.
his next book, Grime, Glitter and Glass: The Body and The Sonic in Contemporary Black Art presents a new interpretation of the work of Renée Stout, Radcliffe Bailey, and María Magdalena Campos-Pons, and considers the intersection between the body, black identity, and the sonic possibilities of the visual using key examples from painting, sculpture, photography, performance. and installation Dirt, glitter and glass received a Wyeth Foundation Publishing Grant for American Art.
Join the School of Art virtually on Thursday, November 3 at 5:30 pm to learn more about Greene and her work.
