Sankofa Summer School: Memorializing Blackness

This course is an introductory course to visual art practices that focus on the African diaspora. In addition to learning about various African descended artists and artistic movements throughout history, we will also African descended scholars who have contributed to how the analysis of visual art has and continues to shape the discipline of Art as a whole. The goal of the course is to identify and analyze the ways art has been used as a colonial project, and, conversely, how it has and continues to be used to resist colonial epistimes as well as carry culture and memory. There will be a particular focus on art projects within public space in order to analyze how these works interact with the surrounding community.