24 and 25 October, Friday and Saturday
EXHIBITION CELEBRATION EVENTS
Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties
Join us for a focus on the Hood's presentation of this groundbreaking exhibition of more than one hundred works of art that span a decade defined by social protest and American race relations.

24 October, Friday, 5:00 p.m.
Hood Museum of Art Auditorium
LECTURE
"Civil / Rights / Act: Art and Activism in the 1960s"
Kellie Jones, Associate Professor in Art History and Archaeology and the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University and co-curator of Witness, will offer a look at how artists engage in changing the world in which we live, in ways both subtle and overt.
PUBLIC RECEPTION
The lecture will be followed by a reception with live music in the Kim Gallery from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.

Image caption: Benny Andrews, Witness, 1968, oil on canvas with painted fabric collage. © Estate of Benny Andrews / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photo by Joshua Nefsky; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY