Ithaca College

Please join Carol Zou, Director of Programs, Asian Arts Initiative, from Philadelphia, PA, on Thursday, 11/16/17, at 6:00 pm in Klingenstein Lounge.

Visual culture does not exist separate from politics, but rather is an integral aspect of the ways in which social, political, and economic shifts occur. This lecture traces the history of United States-based cultural organizing beginning from the civil rights era, and considers tactics and strategies that are relevant to the contemporary sociopolitical climate. Artists/movements examined will include: Emory Douglas and the Black Panther Party, the Chicano art movement, ACT UP, Favianna Rodriguez/CultureStrike, Black Lives Matter, and the presenter's own history of working with grassroots community building in Los Angeles, Dallas, and Philadelphia.

Carol Zou is a Texangelena by way of the Chinese diaspora. She is known for organizing the art collective Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, a collective ranging from 20 to 500 crafters that creates public art through a crowdsourced, participatory model. Beginning June 2015, she is the project manager/artist-in-residence for Trans.lation, an arts and cultural platform initiated by Rick Lowe and commissioned by the Nasher Sculpture Center, located in the immigrant, refugee, Latino, and African American neighborhood of Vickery Meadow, Dallas, Texas.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Penny Bogardus at pbogardus@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-1056. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.