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READING AND CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHOR OF THE SPECULATIVE CITY: ART, REAL ESTATE, AND THE MAKING OF GLOBAL LOS ANGELESJOINED BY ASHLEY DOUGHTY, CONTRIBUTOR TO BLACK, BROWN + LATINX DESIGN EDUCATORS: CONVERSATIONS ON DESIGN AND RACE
In The Speculative City, Susanna Phillips Newbury teases out how art and Los Angeles shaped one another’s evolution. She compellingly articulates how together they transformed the Southland, establishing the foundation for its contemporary art infrastructure, and explains how artists came to influence Los Angeles’s burgeoning definition as the global city of the twenty-first century.
In Black, Brown + Latinx Design Educators, Kelly Walters collects twelve deeply personal interviews with graphic design educators of color who teach at colleges and universities across the United States and Canada. The book centers the unique narratives of Black, Brown, and Latinx design educators, from their childhood experiences to their navigation of undergraduate and graduate studies and their career paths in academia and practice.
Susanna Phillips Newbury is associate professor of art history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Ashley Hairston Doughty is a graphic designer and Assistant Professor of Art at UNLV.
This event is free and open to the public.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Writer's Block, 519 S. 6th Street, Las Vegas, United States