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Imagining Abolitionist Futures

Imagining Abolitionist Futures is a year-long Hurford Center initiative exploring the role of the arts and humanities in the struggle to dismantle the carceral state and build reparative practices and institutions in the place of a system driven by racism, retribution, and violence.

The series will include: talks and panel discussions with scholars, activists, and artists; performances; film screenings; a reading group; a major art exhibition; a two-day symposium; and more.

Raven Chacon, Tuttle Creative Residency, HC February 2023

Raven Chacon: Tuttle Creative Residency

The Tuttle Creative Residency presents Raven Chacon, a Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation.

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A Sense of Things

Technology, Techniques, and Other Storied Matter

Mellon Symposium 2023
Organized by Jia Hui Lee
February 23-24, 2023

Hurford Center & VCAM Philadelphia Artist-in-Residence Open Call

Hurford Center & VCAM Philadelphia Artist-in-Residence Open Call

Deadline to Apply: December 31, 2022

Strange Truth 2022/23

Strange Truth 2022/2023 explores the non-fiction imagination in films by Lisa Rovner, So Yun Um, Brett Story, Nia Dacosta, and Helena de Llanos.

All Events held at Haverford College, Lightbox Theater at University of the Arts, & Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Fall 2022 & Spring 2023

22 people, including the Doculab students and their filmmaking partners, gather on the steps of the VCAM building for a group portrait

Summer Centered: DocuLab 2022 Makes an Impact Through Film

In partnership with the Asian American Documentary Network, five students worked to spread the stories of Asian Americans through film as part of VCAM’s annual collaborative program.

From the desk of Julian Frost '23: "I am writing m

From the desk of Julian Frost '23: "I am writing my history thesis about the reconstruction of French cities after World War II, and how urban plans from the period reflect fundamental shifts in post-war French society. Over winter break, thanks to funding from the Hurford Center, I traveled to Nantes (the city I’m using as a case study). I spent time in the municipal archives, where I found invaluable sources such as correspondences between key historical actors, and toured one of Le Corbusier’s apartment buildings. This opportunity has added considerable rigor and substance to my thesis, for which I’m grateful!"

From our staff @umika_p 🌷 For this year’s Bla

From our staff @umika_p 🌷
For this year’s Black History Month, we are diving into the Haverford archives to revisit some of the brilliant and inspired work that has been brought to and created on campus.
Today we wanted to feature Sadie Barnette’s Dear 1968…, an exhibit that opened in the fall of 2017 alongside a symposium entitled “The Black Extra/Ordinary” organized by Professor Christina Knight. In this exhibit, artist Sadie Barnette, working from her family’s personal archive, drawings, and the 500-page file that the FBI collected on her father, Rodney Barnette, after he joined the Black Panther Party in 1968, explored “the fraught relationship between personal and political, the everyday and the otherworldly, the past and the present…” revealing the way in which injustice continues to enact itself, both in the present of 2017 as well as our current present.
Pictured above are images from the exhibition itself as well as several pieces of media that were featured in it. For a more detailed look at the exhibit, please visit https://exhibits.haverford.edu/dear1968/

CURRENTLY organized by artist Mark Menjívar is no

CURRENTLY organized by artist Mark Menjívar is now up at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery. Make sure you stop by before March 3rd!

TOMORROW, 11:30-12:30, STOKES 106 See you tomorro

TOMORROW, 11:30-12:30, STOKES 106

See you tomorrow at this amazing event hosted by the Office of Race and Ethnicity Education (OREE)!

Will Toms is a the co founder of Rec Philly, a co-working space for creatives, author of (Un)common Sense, and Forbes 2021 30 under 30 honoree!

Student creators, please join us for the talk!

Thanks for joining us this past Friday at the open

Thanks for joining us this past Friday at the opening reception and artist talk for "Currently," staged by artist Mark Menjívar. The exhibition runs through March 3rd at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery.

Currently is a participatory exhibition organized by artist Mark Menjívar that looks deeply at capital punishment in the United States. Through maps, signs, collaborative timelines, a reading table and spaces for imagination, visitors are invited to reflect on the complicated nature of state-sanctioned violence. Visitors will be invited to participate in ongoing collective research and leave reflections directly on the gallery walls, which will then become a publication at the close of the exhibition.

Photos: Logan de Raspide Ross '23

Join us TODAY, Friday, January 27th from 4:30pm -

Join us TODAY, Friday, January 27th from 4:30pm - 7:00pm for the Artist Talk & Opening Reception of Currently, featuring the work of artist Mark Menjívar.

4:30pm Artist Talk with Reception to follow.

Mark Menjívar is a San Antonio based artist and Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University. His art practice primarily consists of creating participatory projects while being rooted in photography, oral history, archives, and social action.

Currently is a participatory exhibition organized by artist Mark Menjívar that looks deeply at capital punishment in the United States. Through maps, signs, collaborative timelines, a reading table and spaces for imagination, visitors are invited to reflect on the complicated nature of state-sanctioned violence. Visitors will be invited to participate in ongoing collective research and leave reflections directly on the gallery walls, which will then become a publication at the close of the exhibition.

More information at exhibits.haverford.edu/currently (link in bio)

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Currently is part of Imagining Abolitionist Futures. Support for the exhibition has been provided by Haverford College’s John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, Office of the President, Office of the Provost, and English Department.

#MarkMenjivar #HCExhibits #Currently #CapitalPunishment #DeathPenalty #DeathRow #ImaginingAbolitionistFutures

🎞 Announcing the 12th Annual Tri-College Film F

🎞 Announcing the 12th Annual Tri-College Film Festival!! 🎞 Here’s everything you need to know to get involved and submit your work! 📹🎥📽

Join us this Friday, January 27th from 4:30pm - 7:

Join us this Friday, January 27th from 4:30pm - 7:00pm for the Artist Talk & Opening Reception of Currently, featuring the work of artist Mark Menjívar.

4:30pm Artist Talk with Reception to follow.

Mark Menjívar is a San Antonio based artist and Associate Professor in the School of Art and Design at Texas State University. His art practice primarily consists of creating participatory projects while being rooted in photography, oral history, archives, and social action.

Currently is a participatory exhibition organized by artist Mark Menjívar that looks deeply at capital punishment in the United States. Through maps, signs, collaborative timelines, a reading table and spaces for imagination, visitors are invited to reflect on the complicated nature of state-sanctioned violence. Visitors will be invited to participate in ongoing collective research and leave reflections directly on the gallery walls, which will then become a publication at the close of the exhibition.

More information at exhibits.haverford.edu/currently (link in bio)

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Currently is part of Imagining Abolitionist Futures. Support for the exhibition has been provided by Haverford College’s John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, Office of the President, Office of the Provost, and English Department.

#MarkMenjivar #HCExhibits #Currently #CapitalPunishment #DeathPenalty #DeathRow #ImaginingAbolitionistFutures

Events

Wednesday, February 8th, 2023

12:00PM

VCAMbient Session #14: “Cultural reMIX” with Reesha Gandhi ’24

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023

3:00PM

Raven Chacon artist talk

Thursday, March 23rd, 2023

4:00PM

IAF symposium keynote talk by Nicole Fleetwood

Wednesday, March 29th, 2023

7:00PM

STRANGE TRUTH: Candyman

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