Lyneise Williams will deliver a lecture titled “Refiguring Nation: The Art of Pedro Figari” at 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 21 in Yeager Recital Hall, located in the Center for the Arts on the þ campus. Williams’ appearance, part of the Art History at Elon Speaker Series, is free and open to the public.
Williams is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, specializing in the art of Latin America, the African diaspora and museum studies. Her publications include “Jean-Michel Basquiat: Not Just Another Dipped Barbie and Traveling Concepts: Making and Remaking Culture.” She will speak on Pedro Figari, the Uruguayan painter, about whom she wrote her dissertation.
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