Event details
September 20, 2023, 6 PM
Location: Payne Room
Free and open to the public
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Join us Wednesday, September 20, at 6 pm, for a Dunkerley Dialogue with artist Paula Wilson, whose solo exhibition Paula Wilson: Toward the Sky’s Back Door is on view through December, and Skidmore Associate Professor of Theater and Department Chair Lisa Jackson-Schebetta.
Dunkerley Dialogues pair Skidmore professors with artists in a conversation format, which is often a catalyst for new connections and understandings across disciplines, and can spark new ideas for all participants. Dunkerley Dialogues are made possible by a generous gift from Michele Dunkerley ’80.
This event is free and open to the public.
Paula Wilson’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, and is in the permanent collections of The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Albuquerque Museum, the New York Public Library, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Tang Teaching Museum, among others. Born in Chicago, Wilson earned her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and MFA from Columbia University in New York. She is the cofounder of the artist-run organizations Carrizozo Artist-in-Residency and MoMAZoZo.
Lisa Jackson-Schebetta is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Theater Department at Skidmore College. She is an award-winning theater history and performance studies scholar. Her research centers on histories and theories of performance and theatre in the Americas, Latin America, and Spain. Her work as a teacher and a scholar is deeply informed by her training and professional experience as a director, devisor, dramaturg, and voice and movement teacher. Jackson-Schebetta’s first book, Traveler, There is No Road: Theater, The Spanish Civil War, and the Decolonial Imagination in the Americas (Iowa, 2017) examines interwar Spanish and English language theater in the United States and trans-historical configurations of race, activism and belonging. Her second book explores intersections between peace-making and performance in contemporary Colombia. She has published in Theatre Survey, Modern Drama, New England Theatre Journal, the Journal of American Drama, and Theatre, and others.