Symposium - Illustration and Race: LIBERATION’S VISUAL LANGUAGE IN THE BLACK PANTHER NEWSPAPER

Saturday, September 24, 2022 | 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
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Join us for all or part of Illustration and Race: Rethinking the History of Published Images
This symposium is generously funded with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Compelling conversations with illustrators, art directors, authors, and scholars will explore more than three hundred years of racial representation in published art and the role of mass-circulated imagery as a force in shaping public perception about people and groups of people. Presented in conjunction with Imprinted: Illustrating Race, the Museum’s current exhibition, this symposium will spark dialogue about the ways that art, advertising, and systems of publishing have helped to frame public opinion, and how the art of illustration is a force for change today.
Session Three
LIBERATION’S VISUAL LANGUAGE IN THE BLACK PANTHER NEWSPAPER
With Colette Gaiter, Professor, Department of Africana Studies and Art & Design, University of Delaware, featuring Black Panther Newspaper artists Emory Douglas, Gayle “Asali” Dickson, and Malik Edwards
The Black Panther newspaper, published by the Black Panther Party in Oakland California almost every week from 1967 to 1980, is an illustrated alternative version of the Civil Rights and subsequent Black Power movements. As photographic media exploded in print and television, the Black Panthers joined the leftist alternative press movement that used relatively inexpensive technology to rock the status quo in texts presented with stunning graphics and illustrations. Colette Gaiter will be joined by noted Black Panther Newspaper artists Emory Douglas, Gayle “Asali” Dickson, and Malik Edwards, who will discuss their experiences as visual commentators for their times.