Seeding the Future - Imagining America Keynote address by Rose Brewer and Seitu Jones September 23, 2011

Registration is required and seating is limited. Contact the Institute for Advanced Study at [email protected] if interested in attending.

Seitu Jones, former artist in residence for the city of Minneapolis, works with everything from wood, clay, glass and steel. In addition to his large scale public works, Jones has exhibited at the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the American Craft Museum in New York, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Most recently his work has focused on the blending art with nature in a variety of mediums which include collard green pottery and designs for public drinking fountains.

Rose Brewer is a professor of African American and African Studies at the University of Minnesota. She has written extensively on black families, race, class and gender, and public policy, publishing over 40 refereed journal articles, book chapters, and scholarly essays in these areas. She is the editor with Lisa Albrecht of Bridges of Power: Women’s Multicultural Alliances. She is also co-editor of Is Academic Feminism Dead?: Theory in Practice (New York University Press, 2000), with the Social Justice Group, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota. Her most recent co-authored book is The Color of Wealth (The New Press, 2006), which was selected as one of the top l0 books for 2006, receiving the Gustavus-Meyers Book Award for best books on bigotry and human rights.

Brewer and Jones are organizing the IAS collaborative, Black Environmental Thought II: Translocal and Transnational Dialogues and Collaborations.

The image above is What Sustains Us? by Wing Young Huie. Wing Young Huie’s photographic projects document the socioeconomic and cultural realities of American society, much of it centered on the urban cores of his home state of Minnesota.

Official Website: http://www.imaginingamerica.org/