We Made You Look: Exploring Hip Hop’s Impact on Black Visual Culture: March 26, 2024 @ 6:30pm
The Center for Black Visual Culture welcomes luminary creatives with deep hip hop roots to interrogate the now 50 year old art form’s impact on Black visual culture. Panelists: Lisa Leone (Director, Photographer), Carlos Mare (Artist & Scholar), Charles Stone III (Director), and Zulu Williams (Creative Director & Designer). Moderator: Rob Marriott (Author, DJ & Filmmaker)
With celebrations about the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop now behind us, The Center for Black Visual Culture has asked luminaries Lisa Leone (Director, Writer & Photographer), Carlos Mare (Artist & Scholar), Rob Marriott (Author, Editor, DJ & Filmmaker), Charles Stone III (Director), and Zulu Williams (Artist & Designer) to offer their insights on Hip Hop’s impact on Black Visual Culture.
20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor Lobby, New York, NY 10003
March 26, 2024
6:30 pm EST

Deborah Willis
Founding Director
Joan Morgan
Director

IAAA’s mission continues to research, document, and celebrate the cultural and intellectual production of Africa and its diaspora in the Atlantic world and beyond with a commitment to the study of Blacks in modernity through concentrations in Pan-Africanism and Black Urban Studies.
The CBVC, is a space for scholarly and artistic inquiry (framing and reframing) into the understanding and exploration of images focusing on black people globally with critical evaluation of images in multiple realms of culture, including how various archives and the development of visual technologies affect the construction of representations.
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The Institute of African American Affairs (IAAA) and Center for Black Visual Culture (CBVC) at New York University are both interdisciplinary spaces for students, faculty, post-doc fellows, artists, scholars and the general public.
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