SUNDAY 3 PM: Join us for our third Mellon Archives Innovation Program as we focus on the glass lantern slides containing images of works by artists Henry Ossawa Tanner and Richmond Barthé. These objects and images are prime examples of the abundant lessons contained within the Glass Lantern Slides Collection. How do the presences and absences of this collection tell us something about Black American and diasporic art and art history? How can we examine these omissions for what they tell us about how histories get institutionalized? This Mellon Archives Innovation Program will focus on two key works by prominent Black American artists nestled in the Glass Lantern Slides, a collection of more than 60,000 glass lantern slides acquired from the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. They cover art and architectural history from the Paleolithic period to the Modern era. We will examine Henry Ossawa Tanner’s 1859 painting Moonlight-Tangiers and Richmond Barthé’s 1942 sculpture Workman as these objects color the way western art history functions as an educational discipline while they simultaneously tell us particular stories about Black aesthetic practices. RSVP to join us at the link in our bio. Mellon Archives Innovation Program #3: Glass Lantern Slides Collection Stony Island Arts Bank 6760 S. Stony Island Avenue Sunday, October 23 3 - 4 PM