Speakers
- Bill Gaskins
- Maryland Institute College of Art
As an artist, Bill Gaskins explores the possibilities of portraiture through photography and cinema that include his body of arts and culture writing framed through American and African American Studies, journalism, and the history of art and photography. An important entry point for this work is his interest in representations of Black life in visual culture. The import and relevance of Bill Gaskins as a contemporary artist, writer, teacher, and thinker has garnered attention through residencies, commissions, lectures, panels, journals, books, catalogs and solo and group exhibitions at major venues including the Crocker Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, The Smithsonian Institution, The New Yorker, and Artsy Magazine. This fall begins his tenure as the new Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Photographic & Electronic Media at Maryland Institute College of Art.