We Wanted a Revolution - Uri McMillan with Linda Goode Bryant, Maren Hassinger, and Lorraine O’Grady

Panel Discussion: Just Above Midtown, East , and West: Performance, Gesture, and Space-Making by Black Women Artists
Uri McMillan with Linda Goode Bryant, Maren Hassinger, and Lorraine O’Grady

This daylong symposium features four panels on black revolutionary art practices, including talks by artists in the exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 and related scholars. Participants include Catherine Morris and Rujeko Hockley, co-curators of the exhibition; Anne Pasternak, Shelby White and Leon Levy Director, Brooklyn Museum; Aruna D’Souza, art historian and critic; Kellie Jones, Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology at the Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University; and Uri McMillan, Associate Professor of English at UCLA.

This event took place at the Brooklyn Museum
on Friday, April 21, 2017.