This Tuesday, March 25, Dr. Jonathan Michael Square, Assistant Professor of Black Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design, is coming to Baruch to give the talk “Looking Back to the Future: Realizing the Afric-American Picture Gallery.” Join us at 12:45pm in NVC 5-165, followed by a reception in the History Department (NVC 5-260).
Dr. Jonathan Michael Square is the Assistant Professor of Black Visual Culture at Parsons School of Design. He earned a PhD from New York University, an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin, and a B.A. from Cornell University. Previously, he taught in the Committee on Degree in History and Literature at Harvard University and was a fellow in the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Most recently, he curated the exhibition Past Is Present: Black Artists Respond to the Complicated Histories of Slavery at the Herron School of Art and Design, which closed in January 2023, and Revolisyon Toupatou, which closed at Parsons School of Design a few weeks ago. He is currently preparing for his upcoming show titled Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library. A proponent of the use of social media as a form of radical pedagogy, Dr. Square also leads the digital humanities project Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom.
This event is sponsored by the Department of History and the Robert A. Friedman Seminar.
