This Spring at Temple Libraries
Join us this spring for Temple Libraries’ Beyond the Page public programming series.
In March:
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Hank Willis Thomas
Photo by Andrea Blanch
Tuesday, March 11, 2:30 p.m.
An Artist Talk with Hank Willis Thomas
Hank Willis Thomas is an internationally renowned artist with works in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has held residencies and fellowships in the Tribeca Film Institute, Johns Hopkins University and the W.E.B. DuBois Research Institute at Harvard University. His project Unbranded: Reflections in Black by Corporate America (2005–2008) is a series of images appropriated from magazine advertisements that are marketed toward African-American audiences or use black subjects. He has digitally removed text and logos, “unbranding” these images to expose the ways advertising reinforces generalizations around race, gender and culture. His 2011 follow-up Branded employs the language of advertising to explicitly address race, class and history. Willis’ work in progress Rebranded deals with a new set of images that compare contemporary ads with strikingly similar examples from the past.
This program is co-sponsored by Temple Libraries, the Painting, Drawing & Sculpture Department, the Department of Graphic Arts and Design and the Photography Program at the Tyler School of Art.
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Friday, March 21, 3 p.m.
Annual Women’s History Program
Grassroots Uprising: The Election of Judge Earlene Green
Join Temple Libraries and the Blockson Collection for the annual Women’s History Month program. This year, Temple alumna Judge Earlene Green, SSW ’98, ’99, discusses her life as an activist, social worker, a public figure and an African-American woman in Philadelphia.
This program will take place at the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Sullivan Hall, 1330 Polett Walk.
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Tuesday, March 25, 12 p.m.
Temple Book Club Reads
The Yellow Birds: A One Book, One Philadelphia Selection
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Thursday, March 27, 2:30 p.m.
Chat in the Stacks |
In April:
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Monday, April 14, 2:30 p.m.
Elijah Anderson: The Cosmopolitan Canopy |
All programs are free and open to the public. Visit our full listing.
Unless otherwise specified, public programs are held in the Paley Library lecture hall at 1210 Polett Walk on Temple’s Main Campus.
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