Visiting Artist Lectures Series (VALS)

Embodied Cartographies

A lecture by Elizabeth M. Webb

Tuesday, April 28, 2023 at 10:30 a.m.

Contemporary Art Center Colloquium Room (CAC 3201)

Artist/Filmmaker Elizabeth M. Webb will discuss her artistic practice and ongoing research on the social histories of landscape, as well as arts-based approaches to community benefit.

Elizabeth M. Webb is an artist and filmmaker originally from Charlottesville, VA. Her work is invested in issues surrounding race and identity, often using the lens of her own family history of migration and racial passing to explore larger, systemic constructs and the renegotiation of their borders. She has screened and exhibited in the U.S., United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Ecuador, Singapore, Switzerland, Mexico, Spain, Norway, Austria and Germany and was a recipient of the inaugural Allan Sekula Social Documentary Award in 2014. Elizabeth holds a dual M.F.A. in Film/Video and Photography/Media from California Institute of the Arts and is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program in Studio Art, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Since 2015 she has been the Creative Producer for Arts in a Changing America, an artist-led initiative that challenges structural racism by centering people of color who are leading innovation at the nexus of arts production, community benefit, and social change. She is currently co-editing an anthology with Roberta Uno and Daniela Alvarez entitled FUTURE/PRESENT: Arts in a Changing America (Duke University Press, 2024).  
 

Presented by the Poetic Justice: Advancing Arts and Culture in Higher Education to Support Black Community Thriving initiative, co-led by Sora Han, Associate Professor, Criminology, Law and Society, and Department Chair, African American Studies, and Liz Glynn, Associate Professor, Art.

Image: Elizabeth M. Webb. Study for A Bearing Tree is a Witness, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist.

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