Julie Levin-Caro, Ph.D. lecture: 'Jacob Lawrence at Black Mountain College, Summer 1946'

Join us for a lecture by art historian and curator Julie Levin-Caro. Featuring an introduction by SCAD alumnus Masud Olufani (M.F.A., sculpture, 2013), the lecture explores the brief but poignant history of Black Mountain College, the impactful summer Jacob Lawrence spent teaching there in 1946, and Lawrence’s significant encounter with German-American abstract painter and Bauhaus pedagogue Josef Albers, then rector and head of the college’s art program.

Black Mountain College, open from 1933 to 1957 in Black Mountain, North Carolina, was the leading experimental, liberal arts college in America and attracted an astonishing number of artistic and intellectual luminaries as faculty and students.

Levin-Caro is a professor of art history at Warren Wilson College, Asheville, North Carolina. Her research focuses on representations of gender, race, class and regional identity in American art, and she has published on the work of African American artists Allan Rohan Crite, Jean Lacy and the quilt makers of Gee's Bend. Her current curatorial projects include "Jefferson Pinder: Selections from the Inertia Series, 2003-2015" and "Between Form and Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence and Black Mountain College," Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, North Carolina.

This lecture is a part of the "Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence" symposium, Oct. 19–20. The symposium is free and open to the public.

"Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence" is on view through Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018. For more information about the exhibition and featured artists, visit scadmoa.org. The exhibition and symposium are made possible by the generous support of the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation and the Ford Foundation.