Dickinson to Host an Artful Approach to Constitution Day
In Sam’s Kitchen Towels (Warp and Weft #4), Bang Geul Han weaves together printouts of various legal documents concerning reproductive rights and their intersections with questions of race and class. Image credit: Etienne Frossard.
Dickinson College to host panel discussion on artists’ responses to U.S. Constitution
Dickinson will host a panel discussion focused on how the work of contemporary artists can enhance our understanding of the U.S. Constitution, its interpretations throughout history and our own political participation. The event, “Picturing the Constitution: Curators, Artists and Scholars in Conversation,” will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter (ATS) Auditorium, 360 W. Louther St. The event is free and open to the public.
This Constitution Day panel discussion is Dickinson’s 2024 Winfield C. Cook Constitution Day Program. It features the following panelists:
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Katherine Gressel is a New York City-based independent curator focused on site-specific, participatory art in nontraditional spaces and the contemporary curator at the Old Stone House & Washington Park (OSH). She has curated over a dozen major exhibitions at OSH and has also curated and produced artist projects for Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Arts Gowanus, Established Gallery, Smack Mellon, FIGMENT, No Longer Empty, St. Francis College and the Brooklyn Historical Society. Her work has been recognized by The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Time Out New York and CBS News.
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Bang Geul Han is an interdisciplinary artist working in video, performance, code and weaving. Her work has been shown in venues including A.I.R. Gallery, The Bronx Museum, Queens Museum and The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, among others. She is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, has served many artist residencies and has earned many fellowships, including an artist residency at the Museum of Art and Design, a Creative Capital Award, an AIM Fellowship and a residency at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Her work has been reviewed in 4Columns, Art Papers, Art in America, The Amp, The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Brooklyn Rail.
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Steven Mazie is a professor of political studies at Bard High School Early College-Manhattan. He is the author of American Justice 2015: The Dramatic Tenth Term of the Roberts Court (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) and Israel’s Higher Law: Religion and Liberal Democracy in the Jewish State (Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington Books, 2006). Mazie is the Supreme Court correspondent for The Economist (2013-present) and has published op-eds in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, SCOTUSblog, Slate, Time magazine and The Atlantic.
The Winfield C. Cook Constitution Day Program is an annual program endowed through the generosity of Winfield C. Cook, a former Dickinson trustee. The event celebrates the signing of the U.S. Constitution and commemorates Dickinson’s connection to that document, through John Dickinson’s participation as an original signer. Each year, the Clarke Forum invites prominent public figures to campus to speak on a contemporary issue related to the Constitution.
This event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues. For more information, visit www.clarkeforum.org or email clarkeforum@dickinson.edu.
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Published September 9, 2024