Master Series lecture: “Us Them We | Race Ethnicity Identity”

The Worcester Art Museum's current exhibition, Us Them We | Race Ethnicity Identity, considers the ways that artists from the last forty years accentuate concepts like race and ethnicity through four formal devices: Text, Juxtaposition, Seriality and Pattern. Artists often employ one or more of these approaches as a means of storytelling, protest and celebration.

In this special Master Series lecture, Kimberly Juanita Brown, a specialist in visual culture studies, will address selected works in the exhibition and will share her thoughts on the stories they tell. After the lecture, Brown will be joined in the galleries by co-curator Nancy Burns for a tour of the exhibition.

This Master Series event will be held on-site in WAM's conference room, with an option to view virtually via Zoom. Attendance is free for WAM Members, and $5 for non-members. To sign up for on-site or virtual tickets, please visit www.worcesterart.org/events/master-series/#upcoming.

Speaker: Kimberly Juanita Brown, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, Dartmouth College.

Photo: Rania Matar, Sisters, Beirut, 2007, archival inkjet print. © Rania Matar. Image courtesy of the artist. Gift from the artist and Gallery Kayafas in honor of Ed Osowski, 2010.276

Master Series Third Thursday programs are hosted by the WAM Members' Council and sponsored by AbbVie. Additional support is provided by the Amelia and Robert H. Haley Memorial Lecture Fund and the Bernard and Louise Palitz Fund.

This exhibition is organized by the Worcester Art Museum in partnership with, and with support from, Clark University. Additional support has been provided by Marlene and David Persky, Michael and Kristy Beauvais, Eve Griliches, Sara Shields and Bruce Fishbein, and Kristin B. Waters. This project is also funded in part by the John M. Nelson Fund and Hall and Kate Peterson Fund. Related programming is supported by the Amelia and Robert H. Haley Memorial Lecture Fund and Spear Fund for Public Programs. The Museum also extends its thanks to our lenders: Alvin Hall, Noel E.D. Kirnon, The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection, Millie Chen, Nafis White and Cade Tompkins Projects, and Howard Yezerski Gallery.