CURATORS IN CONVERSATION FEAT. TK SMITH and JONATHAN SQUARE

THIS SERIES IS DEDICATED TO CRITICAL DEBATE, DIALOGUE, AND ENGAGEMENT WITH CURATORS OF COLOR COMMITTED TO THE ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION OF THE AFRO-CARIBBEAN AND ITS DIASPORA.

For this next installment, curator Jonathan Square will be in conversation with curator and art critic, TK Smith. Square is a Harvard faculty member who specializes in fashion and African Diasporic visual culture, and Smith is the inaugural Tina Dunkley Fellow in American Art at Clark Atlanta University Art Museum & a PhD candidate in the American Civilization Program at the University of Delaware. Square and Smith will discuss intersecting ideas in their curatorial practice, some of which include historical and contemporary movements against racism and towards racial justice, Black visual and material culture, and their commitment to making curatorial research and scholarship more accessible in and outside academia. As always, the conversation will be moderated by Grace Aneiza Ali, CCCADI Curator-at-Large and Assistant Professor, Art & Public Policy, NYU. 

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