Emory Douglas lecture at Columbia.
Tomorrow, December 1st, Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, will be giving a lecture in the Ferguson Auditorium at Columbia College Chicago. Join SDS members at this awesome event! Details:
Who: Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party
Where: Ferguson Auditorium, Columbia College. 600 S. Michigan Ave, 1st Floor.
When: 6:30-7:30
Description from Columbia’s website:
After working in a prison printshop while incarcerated as a teenager and more formally studying commercial art at San Francisco City College, Emory Douglas took on the role of Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, creating the group’s visual style and iconic representations of the Black Power Movement. Through the party’s newspaper The Black Panther, Douglas’s graphic work helped motivate the disenfranchised to action throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Colette Gaiter has describer him as the “Norman Rockwell of the ghetto” portraying the strength and dignity found among even the most harshly oppressed. This lecture is presented as part of the Scraping the Surface Lecture Series. Presented by Anchor Graphics, in conjunction with Critical Encounters: Fact & Faith.
