VRA 2020 Baltimore: Announcing our Convocation Speaker Ashley Minner
The VRA Executive Board is pleased to announce that the Visual Resources Association Foundation Legacy Lecture will be given by Ashley Minner.
Ashley Minner is a community based visual artist from Baltimore, Maryland. An enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, she has been active in the Baltimore Lumbee community for many years, and regularly visits communities throughout the U.S South and Latin America as well. Ashley is a professor of the practice and folklorist in the Department of American Studies at University of Maryland Baltimore County, where she also serves as the inaugural director of the minor in Public Humanities. She is a doctoral candidate in the Department of American Studies at University of Maryland College Park, where she is completing her dissertation on the changing relationship between Baltimore’s Lumbee community and the neighborhood where they first settled.
Learn more about Ashley Minner here, http://ashleyminnerart.com/ and take her walking tour of the Lumbee neighborhood.
Join us Wednesday, March 25th from 4-6pm for the VRA Convocation.The Convocation begins with recognition of the Association’s honors and awards recipients, along with the generous donors who have made these awards available, followed by Ashley Minner's lecture titled “Repatriating the Archives: An Urban Reservation Reunion.”
The Board hopes that Ashley Minner’s insights, in conjunction with other conference content, will prompt dialogue and new forms of inquiry into questions of representation and inclusion we encounter in our institutions. Following the presentation, join Minner and conference attendees for the Convocation Reception to forge new connections.
Want to know more about the VRA 2020 Baltimore Annual Conference? Visit the Schedule here https://vra2020.sched.com/ and feel free to contact me!