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April 17, 2007
A Faculty Scholar Seminar presented with Jane Addams Hull-House Museum,
The Public Square, and Chicago Public Art Group |
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Art, Race, and Place:
Transforming Self and Community
Essie Robeson and Community Murals in Chicago: Two Case Studies
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| Speakers |
Olivia Gude
Associate Professor,
School of Art and Design
UIC College of Architecture and the Arts
Barbara Ransby
Associate Professor, Departments of African American Studies
and History
UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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| Location |
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
800 South Halsted Street, Chicago, IL 60607
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Interdisciplinary scholars Olivia Gude and Barbara Ransby discussed their work
on Chicago community-based muralists and African American writer/activist Eslanda Robeson,
respectively. They explored points of connection between these two topics as they relate to
identity, social- and self-transformation, radical politics, and art.
Olivia Gude is an artist and educator who creates large-scale collaborative
mural and mosaic projects. She and Jeff Huebner are the authors of Urban Art Chicago.
In recent years, Olivia Gude's research has focused on identifying new paradigms for structuring
visual art curriculum in public schools, including the article "Principles of Possibility: Considerations
for a 21st Century Art and Culture Curriculum".
Barbara Ransby is a historian, writer, and longtime political activist. She has
published extensively in popular and scholarly venues; most notably she is the author of an award-winning
biography of civil rights activist Ella Baker, entitled Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement:
A Radical Democratic Vision. The book received eight national awards and distinctions. Barbara Ransby
is currently working on two major research projects, one of which is a political biography of Eslanda
Cardozo Goode Robeson.
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