Related Events
Community Photo Wall - Ongoing
In conjunction with True Likeness we are gathering photos of our community -- students, faculty, staff, alumni, townies and other supporters! Photos will be printed out and added to a display in the Visual Arts Center hallway near the Galleries. Tag your images #truelikenessexhibition when posting photos on Instagram, or send your images to us through direct message on Instagram or Facebook.
In Conversation: Wendy Red Star • Thursday, November 12, 2020 @ 4:30 PM
Join us via YouTube Live for a conversation with artist Wendy Red Star. View the live stream here; the video will also be posted at the top of our YouTube channel at the time of the event.
In Conversation: Exploring Outsider Artists in True Likeness • Monday, November 16, 2020 @ 11:00 AM
Join us via YouTube Live for a conversation with John Foster and True Likeness co-curator Tom Stanley to learn more about Foster’s vernacular photography collection and other outsider artists in the exhibition, including Gene Merritt, Dan Robert Miller, and Sam Doyle.
View the live stream here; the video will also be posted at the top of our YouTube channel at the time of the event.
The Drawing Room's Zoom Drawing Club with Bill Thelen • Saturday, February 6, 2021 @ 11:00 AM
Join us via Zoom for a community drawing event with artist Bill Thelen. Thelen’s work on view in True Likeness, maximum joy, includes drawings inspired by conversations and connections made through his initiative, the Drawing Room's Zoom Drawing Club, an online meeting-place where like-minded, lonely drawers could connect and draw together every Saturday throughout the pandemic. Please RSVP to elharry@davidson.edu.
In Conversation: Deborah Roberts • Tuesday, February 9, 2021 @ 5:00 PM
Join us via YouTube Live for a conversation with artist Deborah Roberts to learn more about her artwork, including Venus the great, currently on view in True Likeness. To create her collages, Roberts often combines fragments of different features, skin tones, hairstyles, and clothing to imagine new, expansive notions of identity. The variations inherent in her collage materials highlight the complexity of Black subjecthood. Roberts says the “faces are demanding, they’re asking you to see their humanity and individuality.” The depicted young girls are often defiant, sassy, strong, and empowered, forging their own paths as they push back on constructs perpetuated within both white and Black communities.
The video link will be posted at the top of our YouTube channel at the time of the event.
In Conversation: Endia Beal • Tuesday, February 16, 2021 @ 5:00 PM
Join us via YouTube Live for a conversation with artist Endia Beal, whose artwork, Mock Interview, is part of our current exhibition. Beal's lecture will focus on four bodies of work, Office Scene, Can I Touch It, 9 to 5, and Am I What You’re Looking For? These works examine the personal and contemporary stories of women of color working within the corporate space, while addressing the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion in corporate hiring practices.
The video link will be posted at the top of our YouTube channel at the time of the event.