We are delighted to confirm the following speakers for Remembrance + Renewal:
Keynote Address to be delivered by Dr. Heran Sereke Brhan, Deputy Director, National Museum of African Art (Smithsonian Institution)
Lecture to be delivered by Prof. Achamyeleh Debela, Professor of Art and Digital Artist at AD Designs.
Panel Contributors:
Prof. Kebedech Tekleab, Associate Professor of Art (Tenured), The City University of New York (CUNY), Queensborough Community College
Wosene Worke Kosrof, Independent Artist
Konjit Seyoum, Artist, Curator, Interpreter, and Writer
Elisabeth Habte Wold, Independent Artist
Prof. Wendy Kindred, Professor Emerita, University of Maine at Fort Kent
Eyakem Gulilat,Tulsa Artist Fellow and Independent Artist
Dr Olivia Murphy, adjunct instructor, art history and women’s and gender studies departments, and research lead for the Black Artists of Oklahoma Project, University of Oklahoma
Prof. Jason Cytacki, Associate Professor of Painting, University of Oklahoma
Prof. Robert Bailey, Interim Associate Director and Associate Professor of Art History, University of Oklahoma
Event Organisers:
Prof. Bekele Mekonnen, Director, Gebre Kristos Desta Centre, and Professor of Art, Alle School of Fine Arts, Addis Ababa University
Prof. Emily Burns, Director of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West and an Associate Professor of Art History in the School of Visual Arts at the University of Oklahoma.
Dr. Kate Cowcher, Lecturer in the School of Art History and co-Director of the St Andrews Centre for Contemporary Art, University of St Andrews