art historian in training. studying art of the Caribbean and Black Diaspora. project manager of @ArtHxProject. I’ll never give up my 504 number ⚜️ she/her
Less than two weeks until our conversation with @nloois - How does experience in critical-care nursing influence his art making today? We'll touch on monuments, time, COVID-19, and dance, with question time too. Free and open to the public. #medhums#art#medicine
At 12:30 Eastern time (in 4 hours time) come to our discussion on the "Politics of Contamination" to learn about how communities are impacted by toxic waste - and how they respond. Register here: https://t.co/rwmNUDPNOr
In “More than an Image: Black Women Healers at the Helm of Modern Gynecology,” Art Hx 2021-22 Interpretive Fellow Dr. Edna Bonhomme highlights the essential role that Black people, specifically Black women, have played—willingly and unwillingly—in the development of gynecology.
Check out our work over at @arthxproject with the brillant and oh so generous @sarahkkhan
Sarah made a digital work (see below) as last year’s Art Hx artist in residence 🤩
Each year, the Art Hx team invites an artist to complete a residency. The 2021-22 Art Hx Artist-in-Residence was Sarah Khurshid Khan @sarahkkhan.
To learn more about Khan, the digital work she created, and this residency, check out the link below. https://t.co/yRRUut9Gbk
@fjherrera90 Imma just sit at home and wait for the video of the kids voguing in the school library to alien superstar. Maybe the HS orchestra will come off summer break and join in
A new satellite images shows emerging mouths bars- teardrop shaped islands in #Louisiana. These is where Neptune Pass, a new channel carrying ~15% of the Mississippi River, meets Quarantine Bay. This may be one of the largest deltaic land building events in decades.
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Art Hx explores the entanglements between art, medicine, race, and colonialism through three core frameworks: Pathologies of Difference, Cultivating Care, and Medicalized Space. 1/2
As some of you might know, I am currently a curatorial fellow in the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Join me next week on Monday, May 16 at 2-4pm. I will reflect on my contributions to "In America: An Anthology of Fashion." https://t.co/HsS6k4ejW3
"A study published last year in the journal @ReadDemography...found banning abortion nationwide would lead to a 21% increase in the number of pregnancy-related deaths for all women and a 33% increase among Black women." https://t.co/tfkxjHmNiw
Breaking: Undergraduate students at Grinnell College just won the first wall-to-wall undergraduate union in the United State in a landslide 327 to 6 vote.
The union will cover every hourly student workplace, in dining halls & elsewhere on campus.
https://t.co/gksSSipdc5
Check out this text, “More than an Image: Black Women Healers at the Helm of Modern Gynecology,” written by 2021-22 Art Hx Interpretive Fellow Dr. Edna Bonhomme @jacobinoire! Thanks Dr. Bonhomme for your generous contribution, which brings together 3 images.
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My latest essay for @ArtHxProject contrasts modern medicine’s representation of Black women as objects in textbooks with Black women as knowledge subjects in art. I cite Christina Sharpe, Deirdre Cooper Owens, @surlybassey, & more https://t.co/rTe0IVeC3Z https://t.co/tbhqTnPZQt