The Grapevine
Barbados Community College Art Exhibition: “Trouble T’ree”
Tonight: Screening of the smARTpower Documentaries at the Bronx Museum of the Arts
25th Annual Conference: Representations, Revisions, Responsibilities—Toward New Narratives for Haiti in 2013 and Beyond
Art Exhibition: Cheery Stewart-Josephs Depicts Jamaican Life at the Embassy of Jamaica in Washington
Art Exhibition: Ken Ramsay Retrospective—Dare to Dream
Cuban Art: Centennial Exhibitions in Havana
EDITORIAL: An Invitation to Critical Dialogue
The National Biennial 2012, which closed in March, was, as Charles Campbell put it in his excellent review, a powerful and demanding exhibition that reflected the expansive growth of contemporary art in Jamaica and its Diaspora. It captured a cultural moment that is energetic, expansive and enthusiastic and viewers and commentators responded accordingly, with unprecedented enthusiasm that left us very encouraged about current directions in Jamaican art and the development of the NGJ itself.
Charles Campbell rightly cautioned, however, that the present cultural moment is also very self-congratulatory and lacks the supporting critical discourse that is needed to make the current growth spurt fully meaningful and sustainable, culturally and intellectually. The NGJ team recognizes this problem and it is in actuality part of our responsibilities to facilitate and promote critical discourse within and about the Jamaican art world, in its broadest sense. We also recognize the need to extend this…
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LEC: “Negro Cloth” by Seth Rockman @ The New School
The New School History Department and the Market Cultures Group NYC
invites you to attend:
“Negro Cloth: Mastering the Market for Slave Clothing in Antebellum America”
Seth Rockman
Associate Professor of History
Brown University
Monday, May 6 @ 6pm
80 Fifth Avenue, Room 529
This talk considers the emergence of the American “negro cloth” industry in
the 1820s and 1830s. At the intersection of material culture studies,
business history, and comparative slavery, this talk traces the circuits of
social knowledge that complemented the circuits of capital in the
simultaneous expansion of the factory and the plantation. Enslaved men
and women played a collaborative role in the design of particular textiles,
and their preferences for some products and critiques of others structured
patterns of labor hundreds of miles away. The research is drawn from a
larger study underway on the inter-regional trade in plantation provisions:
Northern-made hats, hoes, shoes, shovels, and even whips manufactured
for use on Southern slave plantations.
Seth Rockman is associate professor of History at Brown University. His
2009 book Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early
Baltimore won several awards, including the Merle Curti Prize from the
Organization of American Historians. Rockman’s essay on the Jacksonian Era
appears in the recent American History Now volume published by the American
Historical Association. His findings on North-South economic ties have been
previewed in the New York Times “Disunion” blog and the Bloomberg News
“Echoes” blog. Rockman serves on the governing board of Brown University’s
Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.
CFP: Native American Art Studies Association Conference @ Denver
The Native American Art Studies Association’s 2013 conference will be in Denver, October 16-19th. The Call for Papers can be found in their latest newsletter (19.2) at NAASA’s website – http://nativearts.org/conferences/
Paper proposals are due May 15, 2013.
ACRAH 