CANCELLED: Titus Kaphar: Making Space for Black History

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Please join the Friends of the Institute on April 2 as they present Titus Kaphar’s talk “Making Space for Black History.”If art is a language that speaks, what is it saying? Statues of Confederate soldiers loom over our civic institutions, libraries, and schools. Who are the anonymous laborers, those enslaved and in servitude, who appear as footnotes? What values are being expressed by the constitutional monuments dotting our American landscape? And why do we skip certain chapters (entire peoples, entire histories) in our national narratives?

In this powerful talk, Titus Kaphar imagines a renewed and more nuanced engagement with American history: envisioning new spaces for marginalized or forgotten bodies to enter and disrupt the evolving structure of culture. For this creator, the artist’s role is clear—to draw back the curtain on ignorance and deception and amplify the voices of those who cannot speak for themselves.

Titus Kaphar is one of the country’s most exciting young artists and a 2018 MacArthur fellow. As a painter and sculptor, his work has been included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and the Seattle Art Museum.

Reserve your ticket at artsmia.org or by calling 612.870.6323. Tickets are available for Friends members on February 15, and the general public on February 17.