{"id":6266,"date":"2019-11-25T17:13:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T22:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/?post_type=event&p=6266"},"modified":"2020-01-06T13:18:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T18:18:13","slug":"i-am-queen-mary-public-art-and-the-politics-of-representation","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/i-am-queen-mary-public-art-and-the-politics-of-representation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Am Queen Mary\u201d: Public Art and the Politics of Representation"},"content":{"rendered":"

In October 2019, an historic sculpture entitled \u201cI Am Queen Mary\u201d co-created by artists LaVaughn Belle and Jeannette Ehlers arrived at Barnard College on a long-term loan. The sculpture is a scaled-down iteration of the original 23-foot monument that stands outside the West Indian Warehouse in Copenhagen, Denmark. The sculpture commemorates the 1878 \u2018Fireburn\u2019 labor revolt against Danish colonial power in the Virgin Islands, an uprising that was led by four women, including Mary Thomas\u2014known as Queen Mary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On April 27, Belle and Ehlers will be joined by Ariana Gonzalez Stokas (Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Barnard College), Mabel O. Wilson (Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University), and Monica L. Miller (Associate Professor, Departments of Africana Studies and English, Barnard College) to discuss the significance of the statue at Barnard College. How does \u201cI Am Queen Mary\u201d contribute to or challenge the politics of public art, depictions of Black women in public art, and the history of Black women and representations of Black women in art at Barnard College?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image: Jeannette Ehlers and La Vaughn Belle standing beside \u201cI Am Queen Mary\u201d statue outside the West Indian Warehouse in Copenhagen, Denmark. Photograph by David Berg.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In October 2019, an historic sculpture entitled \u201cI Am Queen Mary\u201d co-created by artists LaVaughn Belle and Jeannette Ehlers arrived at Barnard College on a long-term loan. Speakers will discuss how \u201cI Am Queen Mary\u201d contributes to and challenges the politics of public art, depictions of Black women in public art, and the history of Black women and representations of Black women in art at Barnard College. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6268,"template":"","tags":[1292,1296,593,283,1223,1202,1030,1293,1294,1295],"class_list":["post-6266","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ariana-gonzalez-stokas","tag-art-and-representation","tag-black-women","tag-caribbean","tag-i-am-queen-mary-2","tag-jeannette-ehlers","tag-la-vaughn-belle","tag-mabel-o-wilson","tag-monica-l-miller","tag-public-art"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/6266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/6266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}