Art History and Communication Studies
Speakers Series 2012
Presents a lecture by: Deanna Bowen
Thursday, February 16th, 2012: 5:30pm
McGill University, Downtown Campus
853 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal
Arts Building, Room W-215
“The Ties that Bind: Recent Works”
Deanna Bowen is a descendant of the Alabama and Kentucky born Black Prairie pioneers of Amber Valley and Campsie, Alberta. She is a Toronto based interdisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited internationally in numerous film festivals and galleries. She has received several grants in support of her artistic practice. Current works have been shown at the Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, the Nasher Museum of Contemporary Art, the Images Festival of Film, Video & New Media, the Art Gallery of Peterborough, and the Art Gallery of York University. She was recently awarded research/creation funding from the Canada Council for the Arts to develop and create Pain and Wastings (formerly visitations), an experimental video installation/dual portrait based on her mother's stories of growing up in one of the few black families residing in Vancouver, BC through the 1950s-'80s. Bowen is currently working on The Paul Good Papers, an interdisciplinary residency/installation for the Images Festival and Gallery 44 (April 2012 launch) based on the archived recordings of veteran broadcast Civil Rights reporter Paul Good. Bowen will also premiere a major solo intervention/exhibition that unravels the Ku Klux Klan and its connections to Canada for Spring 2013 @ the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) in Toronto.
Co-sponsored by:
The McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
Media and Urban Life Research Group (FQRSC)
Social Equity and Diversity in Education
Black Student Network
Social Equity and Diversity in Education
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