"Provocative" Visual Cultures Symposium Today

By Connect Mason News Director Elizabeth Stern

The Fifth Annual Visual Cultures Symposium titled "Intended to Provoke: Social Action in Visual Culture[s]" will be held today, March 27 in the JC Cinema from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Speakers nationwide are expected to come, with performances and presentations by artists as well as academics.

GMU Assistant Dance Professor Adrian Fang will present "Movement Poetry Project" at 3:30 p.m. Other highlights include a discussion on “Visual Arts Blogs and the Impact on Subversive Art” from F. Lennox Campello, an artist and art critic from Mid Atlantic Daily Art Blog, as well as a talk about “Saty agraha: Making Injustice Visible in Visual Culture” from Adam Wolpa, an art and art history professor from Calvin College.

Students are encouraged to come for as little or as long as they like, as well as drop by JC Gallery 123 to see the juried student show, "Provocations: The Art of Social Action."

All events are free. Refreshments will be served.

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