Languages of Invisibility, Devaluation, and Triumph

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Languages of Invisibility, Devaluation, and Triumph
In Dialogue: Veronica Jackson and Andrea Douglas
Mon, Nov 11
5PM (ET)
Campbell 153
 

Exhibition
Tues, Nov 5–Mon, Nov 25
Campbell East Wing Gallery

Alumnae artist Veronica Jackson (BS Arch '85) and Andrea Douglas, Executive Director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, come together to discuss visual culture's role in shaping Black identity. The conversation will highlight Jackson's installation BLACKTIVISTS featured in the Campbell East Wing Gallery (Nov 5–25), and Swords Into Plowshares, an innovative project spearheaded by the Jefferson School to melt down Charlottesville's former bronze statue of Robert E. Lee and transform it into a new work of public art.

Speakers

Veronica Jackson’s artwork stems from the critical examination of visual culture. As an artist she records, interprets, and makes aware the complexities in which humans exist and affect their social surroundings. As an architect and interpretive designer she creatively solves problems within virtual and built environments. Her practice lies at the intersection of visual art and interpretive design, and is a combination of past professional disciplines, present lived experiences, and an accumulation of contemporary and historic research. Jackson’s multidisciplinary body of work is text-based, autobiographical, and in response to her gendered and racialized existence in America.
 

Dr. Andrea Douglas holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. in arts management and finance from Binghamton University, NY. Douglas was recently appointed to the Governor’s Commission to Study Slavery and Subsequent De Jure and De Facto Racial and Economic Discrimination. She is also the co-chair of the President’s Commission on the Age of Segregation at the University of Virginia and sits on Monticello’s Advisory Committee on African American Affairs as well as the state’s History of Lynching in Virginia Working Group. She has served on the City of Charlottesville Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Monuments and Public Spaces, the University of Virginia’s President’s Commission on Slavery at the University and was chair of the city’s PLACE Design Task Force.
 

Co-presented by the Dean's Forum on Equity & Inclusion and UVA's Center for Cultural Landscapes, with support from the Mellon Foundation and the Sara Shallenberger Brown Endowment.