Editor: Keith Davis Writers: Alex Dippold, Jennifer Bates Lockley, Dave Maley Publisher: Office of Public Information Volume 22, No. 4  October 4, 1999

Handwerker Gallery Series Continues The next speaker in the Critical Forum series, sponsored by the Handwerker Gallery of Art, will be Kobena Mercer, a fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. Mercer’s talk, "Hybridity — in and out of the Fashion Cycle," is scheduled for 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 7, at the gallery. It is free and open to the public. Mercer is a cultural critic whose varied work on the politics of representation in African diasporic visual arts has inaugurated an important line of inquiry into post-identitarian cultural politics. His first book, Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies, examines black cultural forms in hairstyles, dress, and music, as well as new forms of cultural expression in black film, photography, and art. He has written frequently for the magazines Screen, ArtForum, and Sight and Sound and contributed essays to the catalogs for museum exhibitions by Keith Piper and Adrian Piper. He has taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz in the History of Consciousness program and was a visiting professor in the Africana studies department at New York University. Mercer’s talk will mark the fourth presentation in the Handwerker Gallery Critical Forum series, which was established in 1998 to enhance the understanding of art production and art consumption. The series brings art historians, critics, and scholars to campus to expose the different strategies used to produce images, thereby helping art history students and the larger community become more perceptive critics themselves.

Created by Andrejs Ozolins. Updated 2 Nov 1999