

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Visiting Artist Talk: gloria j. wilson
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 05:30 pm – Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: This talk considers Black aesthetic practice as a method of thinking, teaching, and world-making in the unfinished project of emancipation.

Through the work of Black women artists, it explores how movement and aesthetic refusal reveal the limits of institutional freedom and open pedagogies of living otherwise.


ABOUT THE ARTIST

gloria j. wilson is Associate Professor of Arts Administration, Education, and Policy at The Ohio State University, co-editor of A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back and founder/ former co-director of Racial Justice Studio (Arizona Arts). gloria is recognized for her work in Black Studies, cultural studies, hip hop and transnational feminisms, fugitive praxis, Afro-Asian solidarities, and as a facilitator for anti-racism workshops in museums and community spaces utilizing arts-based methodologies. Also a practicing artist, gloria's work broadly examines notions of liberation, power, access across arts modalities and specifically examines the intersections of identity and how arts participation has been framed.

As an invited artist/speaker, she has presented for Spelman College's Museum of Art BLACK BOX series and for Stanford's Theoretical Archaeology Group's (TAG) Rethinking Archaeology Pegagogies series. She is a steering committee member for create, a collective advocating for racial equity in the arts and education and is current Senior Editor for the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education. Her current art-making focuses on the intersections of freedom-dreaming, garment-making and print-making, particularly the Blackademic Project and forthcoming installation honoring the descendants of Clotilda survivors in Africatown, Mobile, Alabama. Her work has been exhibited in numerous museums and universities throughout the United States.

*Parking nearby is free after 5 pm and on weekends.*

Part of the School of Art &amp; Design's Visiting Artists series.

Krannert Art Museum acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.

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KRANNERT ART MUSEUM
SPRING 2026 EVENTS HIGHLIGHTS

JANUARY
• Jan 10, Rest Lab: Pause + Play, 11 am–12 pm
• Jan 17, Artventures for Kids!, 1–3 pm
• Jan 24, Knit &amp; Sit, 1–3 pm
• Jan 28, Members’ Preview &amp; Reception, 5–7 pm · RSVP required.
• Jan 29, Opening Night at the Museum! 5–7 pm · Enjoy live music and celebrate with 11 artists featured in "Another Place: Storymaking the Entangled Prairie | School of Art &amp; Design Faculty" exhibition.
• Jan 31, Latina Voces Reception, 1–3 pm · Artwork by Urbana High School students.

FEBRUARY
• Feb 5, Visiting Art Scholar Talk: dr. gloria j. wilson, 5:30 pm · Auditorium (KAM 62)
• Feb 5, SPEAK Café, 6–7:30 pm
• Feb 19, Night OUT at the Museum, 5:30–7:30 pm
• Feb 20, Panel Discussion with Partners from Peru, 2 pm · Auditorium (KAM 62) &amp; Zoom · Living Legacies of “Fragmented Histories: Andean Art Before 1600” · En español e inglés
• Feb 21, In the Studio: Printmaking Workshop, 1–3 pm
• Feb 21, Reception for Imagination, Faith, and Desire, 4–6 pm
• Feb 26, Visiting Artist Talk: Oscar Joyo, 5:30 pm · Auditorium (KAM 62)

MARCH
• Mar 5, Visiting Curator Talk: Michelle Joan Wilkinson | Telling Stories with Exhibitions, 5:30 pm · Auditorium (KAM 62)
• Mar 5, SPEAK Café, 6–7:30 pm
• Mar 12, Improvisers Exchange: Sudden Sound Concert, 6 pm
• Mar 17–21, Spring Break at Krannert Art Museum – We’re open!
• Mar 30–Apr 3, Weeklong Residency with the Women’s Collective from Lota, Chile

APRIL
• Apr 2, SPEAK Café, 6–7:30 pm
• Apr 2, Performance | FOREST: Stories in Progress, 5:30 pm · Auditorium (KAM 62) · Part of Deke Weaver's "The Unreliable Bestiary" series.
• Apr 3, Noontime Panel | Memorias de la Mujer Lotina: Arpilleras, Women, and Coal in Chile, 12–1 pm · Auditorium (KAM 62) · Reception to follow. En español e inglés.
• Apr 9, Teen Takeover &amp; ArtSpeak Teen Art Showcase, 5–7:30 pm
• Apr 10–11, Boneyard Arts Festival &amp; Mom’s Weekend visitors during open hours
• Apr 11, Improvisers Exchange: Sonic Location, 1–3 pm
• Apr 11, MFA Exhibition Opening Reception, 4–6 pm

MAY
• May 7, FAA Finals Fest, 12–3:30 pm · For U of I students
• May 9, BFA Exhibition Opening Reception, 4–6 pm
• May 30, Acquired Taste Celebration! Museum Benefit, 5:30–8:30 pm · RSVP required.
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