Please join us for the eighth annual

Edmund W. Gordon Lecture

featuring

Lisa Farrington, Ph.D.

Associate Dean of Fine Arts and Director of the Howard University Gallery of Art

The Harlem Renaissance and Its Legacy in Contemporary Art

Thursday, November 18, 2021
5:00 PM EST
- Virtual Event -

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About Our Speaker

Award-winning academic author Dr. Lisa E. Farrington is Associate Dean of Fine Arts and Director of the Howard University Gallery of Art at Howard University.  To date, Howard University has awarded more than 130,000 degrees in the arts, sciences, and humanities, and has the most on-campus African-American Ph.D. recipients of any other university in the United States. Dr. Farrington earned a B.F.A. from Howard University in 1978, and  then completed an M.A. at American University. She went on to earn an M.A. in philosophy and Ph.D. in art history from the City University of New York Graduate Center.  Dr. Farrington has lectured on three continents and authored or co-authored 10 books, including two award-winning historical texts for Oxford University Press: African-American Art: A Visual and Cultural History and Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists. In addition, she was the 2008 Endowed Scholar of the Humanities at Spelman College and won the coveted Creative Capital Writers Award from the Andy Warhol Foundation for her manuscript on African American artist Emma Amos.

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