Angela Davis
"Art & Activism: On the Inside Out”
September 28 | 2 p.m. | WMU Richmond Center for Visual Arts–Dalton Center Recital Hall
Join us for a panel discussion with legendary activist and academic Angela Davis and artists Maria Gaspar (Chicago, IL) and Tyanna Buie (Detroit, MI). In an intimate and wide-ranging discussion, these three women will discuss the intersection of art and activism as it pertains to the crisis of mass incarceration. Drawing on both personal experience and the socio-political narratives that underpin the prison industrial complex, this panel aims to highlight a multitude of perspectives, including such themes as isolation, the inside/outside boundary and the prison wall itself, as well as the psychological and political barriers affecting incarcerated populations and their surrounding communities, cities and families.
This program is presented in conjunction with the group exhibition On the Inside Out, on view at the Richmond Center for Visual Arts through October 28.
Professor Angela Davis is the author of nine books and has lectured worldwide. Davis’ teaching career has taken her to San Francisco State University, Mills College and UC Berkeley. She also has taught at UCLA, Vassar, the Claremont Colleges and Stanford University. She spent the last fifteen years at the University of California Santa Cruz where she is now Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness, an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program, and of Feminist Studies.
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