Out of Easy Reach, an exhibition of abstract contemporary art produced by 25 artists identifying as women who are part of the African and Latinx diasporas, will be running during the first week of the semester. The opening(s) and related symposium will occur at the Grunwald Gallery on August 23rd and 24th.  Please join us and encourage your students to attend as well.  The full run of the exhibition: Out of Easy ReachAugust 24-November 16, 2018Grunwald Gallery of Art

Cultural Studies has long occupied a productive tension between material and visual cultures. Over the years, scholarship on materiality and visuality has developed in relation to perceived limitations with the “linguistic turn,” but also, more recently, in dialogue with the “new mobilities paradigm,” and “object-oriented ontology.” The production and circulation of images and material culture has, moreover, been forged and contested through colonial encounters of violence and intimacy, international political solidarities, and competing imaginaries of the global.