Lyneise Williams, “Refiguring Nation: The Art of Pedro Figari”

Yeager Recital Hall, 7:00 p.m.

Art History at Elon Speaker Series

Williams is a Post Doctoral Fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill specializing in the art of Latin America and the African diaspora as well as 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.