Dialogues on Black Dimensions in Art
Join us for a panel exploring Black Dimensions in Art and its cultural impact.
Thursday, Oct. 9, 6:00 P.M.
Tang Teaching Museum
A dynamic panel on Black liberation and racial justice with a focus on the Capital
Region’s longest-running Black arts collective, .
Panelists include Saida Grundy, Associate Professor of Sociology and African American
Black Diasporic Studies at Boston University, and Up to Us exhibiting artist ransome.
They will discuss the Black Arts Movement historically and its legacy today and the
continued importance of the critical work of creating and supporting Black arts organizations.
This event is inspired by the Tang's current exhibit, , on display until November 2, 2025.
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Saida Grundy is a feminist sociologist of race & ethnicity studies and the Associate Professor of Sociology and African American Black Diasporic Studies (with a courtesy appointment in Women & Gender Studies) at Boston University. She is the author of the award-winning Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man(University of California Press, 2022). Her research to date has focused upon formations and ideologies of gender and politics within the Black middle class and elites–specifically men.
Prof. Grundy’s research interests span Race & Ethnicity; Gender & Sexuality; Men & Masculinities; Intersectionality; Qualitative Methods; and the Sociology of Elites. She received her joint Ph.D. (2014) in Sociology & Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. When she has something to say, she contributes to The Guardianand The Atlantic.
ransome received his MFA from Lesley University. In his practice he combines acrylic paint with an array of found, created, and purchased papers. His work embraces the spontaneity in jazz and the resourcefulness of rural Gee’s Bend quilters, utilizing materials at hand to collage and paint to blend a unique yet personal creation.
ransome’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Opalka Gallery in Albany, New York; Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina; and Geary in Millerton, New York. Group shows include the 2023 Center for Maine Contemporary Art Biennial, Rockland, Maine; An Unpredictable Time & Place, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; 47th Presentation of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina; as well as exhibitions at the Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, New Jersey; Band of Vices, Los Angeles, California, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, North Carolina; The Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, New York; and the Katonah Museum, Katonah, New York.
Co-sponsored by the .