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Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group

  • About
  • 2024-2025 Schedule
  • Resources
  • News
  • Digital Exhibits
    • Palimpsests: Visual Idioms of Enslavement in the Nineteenth Century and their Afterlives
    • Visualizing/Performing Blackness in the Afterlives of Slavery: An Archive
  • International Colloquia
    • March 2018: Traveling Colloquium to Paris and Nantes
    • June 2019: Esclavitud, visualidad y memoria: Prácticas de reactivación
    • July 2023: Visual Regimes of Enslavement and Their Afterlives (The Puerto Rico Case)
  • Contact Us

Author: Cristina Esteves-Wolff

"The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met"

“The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met”

Posted on September 26, 2022September 26, 2022 by Cristina Esteves-Wolff
At the center of “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina,” a revelatory exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, stands a majestic artifact: a stoneware storage jar t... Read More
"The Enslaved Artist Whose Pottery Was an Act of Resistance "

“The Enslaved Artist Whose Pottery Was an Act of Resistance “

Posted on September 26, 2022September 26, 2022 by Cristina Esteves-Wolff
Poetic jars by David Drake are setting records at auction and starring in art museums, showcasing the artistry of enslaved African Americans. Click here to read more.... Read More
Roundtable - "Esclavage et culture visuelle: perspectives historiques et artistiques"

Roundtable – “Esclavage et culture visuelle: perspectives historiques et artistiques”

Posted on July 10, 2022July 10, 2022 by Cristina Esteves-Wolff
On June 5, 2022, our partner Slavicult group at Yale organized a roundtable in Fontainebleau in collaboration with the Fondation pour la Mémoire de l’Esclavage to discuss the historical relation be... Read More
Sarah Thomas, “Consumption, Wealth, and Art Collecting in the Age of British Emancipation”

Sarah Thomas, “Consumption, Wealth, and Art Collecting in the Age of British Emancipation”

Posted on April 19, 2022April 19, 2022 by Cristina Esteves-Wolff
  ABSTRACT: Over the course of the 1820s, as British slaveholders were drawn increasingly into a bitter and contested debate about the future of slavery, the nation’s art institutions were thri... Read More
Protected: Reginald Jackson, “Burdens of Proof: Enslavement, Evangelization, and the Performativity of Visual Evidence in Jesuit Japan”

Protected: Reginald Jackson, “Burdens of Proof: Enslavement, Evangelization, and the Performativity of Visual Evidence in Jesuit Japan”

Posted on March 6, 2022April 19, 2022 by Cristina Esteves-Wolff
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.... Read More
Protected: C.C. McKee, “At the Threshold of Human and Vegetable: Painting Black Monstrosity in the French Atlantic”

Protected: C.C. McKee, “At the Threshold of Human and Vegetable: Painting Black Monstrosity in the French Atlantic”

Posted on November 11, 2021April 19, 2022 by Cristina Esteves-Wolff
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.... Read More
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Coming Up

October 24, 4:30-6:3opm: Lecture by Nancy van Deusen, “The Challenges of Working with Indigenous Petitions for Freedom”

October 25, 12:00-1:30pm: Workshop with Nancy van Deusen, “Rescate (Exchange/Redemption) of Indigenous Captives: An Absent Presence in Spanish American Colonial Archives”

 

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