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SUMMARY:Afro-Hispanic Painter Juan de Pareja
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit\, Juan de Pareja\, Afro-Hispanic Painter (April 3 – July 16\, 2023). This program is free to the public\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Program\nDr. David Pullins\, associate curator in the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (pictured above)\, will talk about the exhibition he recently co-curated at the museum\, Juan de Pareja\, Afro-Hispanic Painter. The research inspired by this groundbreaking exhibit has offered an unprecedented look at the life and artistic achievements of Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670). Largely known today as the subject of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s iconic portrait by Diego Velázquez (pictured above)\, Pareja was enslaved in Velázquez’s studio for more than two decades before becoming an artist in his own right. The exhibition was the first to tell his story and examine the ways in which enslaved artisanal labor and a multiracial society are inextricably linked with the art and material culture of Spain’s so-called Golden Age. The exhibit brought together approximately 40 paintings\, sculpture\, and decorative arts objects\, as well as an array of books and historic documents from The Met’s holdings and other collections in the United States and Europe. \nMax Hollein\, Marina Kellen French Director of The Met.\, said\, “This exhibition takes us to the very heart of 17th-century Spanish painting to reveal Juan de Pareja’s incredible personal story. By reexamining the narrative around one of the most celebrated works in the history of western portraiture\, the presentation challenges us to question existing notions about historical art and objects—and introduces a remarkable artist whose name may be familiar to many but whose work had not been explored in depth.” \nAbout Juan de Pareja\nJuan de Pareja was born around 1608 in Antequera\, Spain–probably to an enslaved woman of African descent and a white Spaniard. Although no known documents from Pareja’s lifetime speculate on his family origins or skin color\, ample evidence from seventeenth-century Spain provides the context of a highly multiracial society in which enslaved labor was widespread. Pareja is first mentioned in Madrid in 1634 as part of the circle of artist Diego Velázquez\, who was then establishing himself as the foremost painter at the Spanish court. Between 1649 and 1650\, the pair traveled to Italy\, where Velázquez painted Pareja’s portrait and signed legal papers releasing him from slavery. Once back in Madrid\, Pareja built a successful career as an independent artist. \nRegister Here for Zoom Lecture
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/afro-hispanic-painter-juan-de-pareja-2/
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SUMMARY:Georgia’s Long Struggle Toward Democracy: The Role of the Press\, Then and Now
DESCRIPTION:The Baton Foundation will host a lecture about the role of Black press leaders in Georgia’s ongoing struggle for democracy. This program is free to the public\, but registration is required. \nAbout the Program\nGeorgia and its capital city\, Atlanta\, have long played a central role in the U.S. struggle to achieve the democratic ideals set forth in its founding documents. From the end of the Civil War (1861-1865) to the present\, a reactionary\, anti-democratic\, White nationalist press has often worked against these efforts. \nUsing their book\, Journalism and Jim Crow (University of Illinois Press\, 2021)\, as a backdrop\, professors D’Weston Haywood and Kathy Roberts Forde will discuss how White press leaders\, collaborating with Georgia governors\, senators\, officials\, and business leaders\, helped build a violent White supremacist society and political economy that endured for generations after the war. They also will tell the equally compelling story about how Black press leaders fought back–documenting\, in real time\, what was happening while marshaling a collective Black power to forge a more inclusive and just democracy in the state\, the South\, and in the nation. Drs. Forde and Haywood will connect this history to the momentous events taking place in Georgia today. \nAbout the Author\nD’Weston Haywood is an Associate Professor of History at Hunter College\, City University of New York (CUNY). His work centers on Black protest and cultural politics\, and their intersections with the state and public spheres. His award-winning book\, Let Us Make Men: The Twentieth-Century Black Press and a Manly Vision for Racial Advancement (UNC Press\, 2018)\, explores this. Haywood’s work also includes “Sonic Scholarship.” His projects here include “The [Ferguson] Files: A Sonic Study of Racial Violence in America” (2016)\, examining a year of racial violence from the killing of Michael Brown to the massacre at Mother Emanuel AME Church\, and “MADE MEN” (2020)\, examining White Nationalism\, White masculinity\, and American politics in the Trump era. He is currently working on two book projects\, one reconsidering the Cold War and Space Age through Black Nationalism\, and another analyzing Black political theory\, Hip Hop\, and mass incarceration. Originally from North Carolina\, Haywood currently lives in Queens\, New York. \nAbout the Editor\nKathy Roberts Forde is Professor of Journalism and Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is co-editor and contributing author of the book Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America\, which received the American Historical Association Palmegiano Book Award\, the AEJMC History Division Book Award\, and the American Journalism Historians Association Book Award. A U.S. press historian\, Dr. Forde is working on a new book about the role of the White press in racial massacres—instigating\, organizing\, and covering up racial massacres for generations after the Civil War—and the role of the Black press in exposing these atrocities and attempting to hold those responsible to account. Professor Forde was raised in rural East Tennessee. \nRegister Here for Zoom Lecture
URL:https://thebatonfoundation.org/event/georgias-long-struggle-toward-democracy-the-role-of-the-press-then-and-now/
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