Sharon Norwood | Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Sharon Norwood will speak as part of the School of Art’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

From Norwood’s artist statement:

My research explores issues of identity where I use the line as a way to speak about our relationships to postcolonial structures, systems of power, and their implication to collective suppositions about difference. I aim to create works that disrupts the white gaze and other passive notions of viewing “the other”, and to question standing narratives and systems that shape how identities are understood. It is about looking, and deeper critical thinking. Content for the work comes out of a need to unpack my own awakening to the racially charged social, political, and cultural histories of black peoples. I am interested in those things that shape our understanding of “black culture”.