Symposium focuses on early African-American art

The Gallery of Art will host a national symposium on early African-American art from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 16.

The symposium, "From Revolution to Renaissance: African-American Art From Slave Artisans to Expatriate Artists, 1776-1920," will be held in Steinberg Hall Auditorium. It is free and open to the public.

The program includes talks by Steven Jones, an independent cultural historian, on the African-American cultural community in antebellum Philadelphia; Juanita Holland, assistant professor at the University of Maryland, on E.M. Bannister and the anti-slavery movement in Boston; Joseph D. Ketner, director of the Gallery of Art, on African-American artists and the anti-slavery movement in Cincinnati; Theresa Leininger-Miller, assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati, on the African-American artist abroad; and Judith Wilson, lecturer at Yale University, on Henry O. Tanner, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington.

The symposium is being held in conjunction with the exhibit "Lifting the Veil: Robert S. Duncanson and the Emergence of the African-American Artist," which is at the Gallery of Art through March. (For more information about this exhibit, click here.)

For more information, call 935-5490.