The Feminist Lecture Program is excited to announce a brand new collaboration with the Vagina Museum! The same amazing online weekly feminist content you expect from us, now hosted by the worlds only bricks and mortar Vagina Museum!
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Black female artists made some of the most essential contributions to the Western Canon in the 20th Century - so why is it that their work has not been recognised? And how can we start acknowledging their contributions in the world today?
Join Dr. Sheree Mack for her incredible lecture that aims to re-situate the Women of the Blk Art Group and the Black British Art Movement as front and centre in the evolution of Black British Art, exploring how these artists created not just a movement but also unique spaces and opportunities for Black artists in Britain to show their work to the British public on their own terms.
Dismissed as political art or identity politics, Black art has not yet received its full aesthetic criticism or appreciation, let alone the women who helped forge it. Sheree will be delving into the repertoire of work from the likes of Sonia Boyce, Lubaina Himid and Claudette Johnson and many more, aiming to highlight their role in shaping the Western Canon, and their ever-lasting legacy to this day.
ABOUT OUR LECTURER
Dr. Sheree Mack is Creatrix: she who makes with a practice which manifests through poetry, storytelling, image and the unfolding histories of Black people. She engages audiences around Black womens voices and bodies, Black Feminism, ecology and memory, trauma and healing, grief and nature. Training within eco-therapy, Sheree advocates for Black womens voices, facilitating national and international creative workshops and retreats in the landscape, encouraging and supporting women on their journey of remembrance back to their bodies and authentic selves.
Throughout her freelance career of 20 years, Sherees been commissioned by New Writing North, Durham Literature Festival and local council authorities. Shes worked with the Arvon Foundation, The Sage Gateshead and The Baltic. She has enjoyed residencies with Northumberland National Park, The National Trust, The Literary and Philosophical Society, Tyne and Wear Museums and Archives Services, Jefferson Land Trust, Washington State and Westfjords Artist Residency, Iceland.
With a PhD from Newcastle University ( 2010) focusing on the tradition of Black British Women Poetry, Sheree has been extensively published with two full poetry collections, chapbooks, anthologies and literary journals.
Instagram: @shereemackwrites , @livingwildstudios and @earthsealove
Website: https://livingwildstudios.com
UPCOMING SESSIONS WITH THE FEMINIST LECTURE PROGRAM
Monday 4th March
Kamin Mohammadi
Irans Ancient Feminist History
Monday 11th March
Ruth Charnock and Karen Schaller
Witching the Institution: Academia and Feminist Witchcraft
Monday 18th March
Lucy Cade
Female Creatives and Spirit Photography in the 19th Century
Monday 25th March
Dr. Sheree Mack
The Women of the Black British Art Movement
Monday 1st April
Nina-Sophia Miralles
Vogue Magazine: Invention, Erasure, Perversity & Power
Monday 8th April
Camilla Baier, Lauren Clarke and Rachel Pronger
The Animation of Mary Blair: A Feminist's Guide to Disney
Monday 15th April
Lauren Peters
Fashion Before Plus-Size: Bodies, Bias, and the Birth of an Industry
Monday 22nd April
Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone
Intimate Ecologies: a Black feminist erotics for interspecies un/worlding
Monday 29th April
Joanna Ebenstein
The Anatomical Venus
Monday 6th May
Amina Nugumanova and Elmira Ismukhamedova
Women in Central Asian art: Preservation of Collective Heritage and
Decolonisation
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RECORDING
A recording of the lecture will be sent out by The Feminist Lecture Program after the event finishes, within 2 hours of the end of the class. This email will also contain any resources/reading list the lecturer shares.
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Please note that the recording will expire 7 days after sending.
PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Everyone is welcome to join this Pay-What-You-Can class. We suggest a donation of 20, however, we understand that may not be possible for everybody. Please be honest and pay what you can afford so that we can continue to offer our sessions on a donation basis.
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