A Los Angeles-based artist will discuss how race is represented in art in a lecture this evening, Oct. 8, at Krannert Art Museum. Ken Gonzales-Day, a professor of art and humanities at Scripps College, will speak at 5:30 p.m. The title of his lecture is “Interruption and Absence: A History of Lynching (Latinos) and How It Changed What I Think About Contemporary Art.”
Gonzales-Day’s project, “Searching for California Hang Trees,” looks at the history of lynching in California and documents many lynching sites. Another project of his, “Profiled,” considers how race is depicted in sculpture and physical anthropology collections in museum collections.
