Upcoming Events

Timur Hammond (Geography, College of Arts & Sciences) and Lawrence Chua (School of Architecture) join artist Rina Banerjee to discuss materiality, time, architecture, and geography in Banerjee’s Take Me to the Palace of Love (2003) and A World Lost (2013) on view at the museum. Space is limited; please submit a Request to Participate. Learn more about the full series of events--and co-sponsors--for 2023 Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities, Rina Banerjee.

Associate Professor Joan Bryant (African American Studies) and Associate Professor Romita Ray (Art History, College of Arts & Sciences) talk with Rina Banerjee about inter-racial marriage, diaspora, and identity in Banerjee’s Viola, from New Orleans, relating with objects from the museum’s collection. Space is limited; please submit a Request to Participate. Learn more about the full series of events--and co-sponsors--for 2023 Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities, Rina Banerjee.

Associate Professor Sascha Scott (Art History, College of Arts & Sciences) and Lead Curator Courtney Hicks (Special Collections Research Center) moderate a ‘box lunch’ conversation with Banerjee on navigating the world of art as a woman of color and creating an artist's archive. Space is limited; please submit a Request to Participate. Learn more about the full series of events--and co-sponsors--for 2023 Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities, Rina Banerjee.

Black Noodles, Replenishing / Reaping the Earth Enjoy refreshments in the Shaffer Galleria before Rina Banerjee's presentation explores diaspora, displacement, and science in her drawings and art installations in the exhibition, Take Me to the Palace of Love. "Between birth and death the constant spins and oodles of noodles migrate, waffle uncertainty." Learn more about the full series of events--and co-sponsors--for 2023 Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities, Rina Banerjee.

Focusing on Rina Banerjee's exhibition, Art History graduate student Ankush Arora talks with Banerjee about curating an exhibition of Mithila art from India. Space is limited. Please submit a Request to Participate. Learn more about the full series of events--and co-sponsors--for 2023 Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities, Rina Banerjee.

Rina Banerjee collaborates with Chemistry faculty, SCRC curator Courtney Hicks, and museum curators Melissa Yuen and Kate Holohan to offer a limited space workshop for interested students and campus community members, with reception to follow in the Hillyer Room. Space is limited; please submit a Request to Participate. Learn more about the full series of events--and co-sponsors--for 2023 Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities, Rina Banerjee.

David M. Driesen, University Professor (School of Law) and Mike Goode, William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities (English) engage Rina Banerjee in critical conversation about climate change, art, and law. Space is limited; please submit a Request to Participate. Learn more about the full series of events--and co-sponsors--for 2023 Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities, Rina Banerjee.