Join us for a conversation with Chotsani Elaine Dean, artist and Assistant Professor of Ceramics, and Yuichiro Onishi, Professor of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies Program, both at the U of M Twin Cities. Moderated Q & A will follow the dialogue.
Related Exhibition: Dean is a featured artist in the exhibitionEbb/Flow, on view at the Weisman through October 2023.
Read an interview with Yuichiro Onishi about his research at the intersection of Black thought and struggles and Asian culture and history. He’s interested in liberation, the problem of the “color line” (in both Black and Asian critical discourse), and “the question of how to be free and learn to live together in a highly unequal and uneven world where race—a marker of difference and a mechanism of differentiation—dynamically imbricates relations of domination and emancipatory strivings.”
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Chotsani Elaine Dean, b. Hartford, CT, is an artist and Assistant Professor of Ceramics at the University of Minnesota. She received her BFA in ceramics from Hartford Art School and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Sam Fox School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis. Dean is coauthor of the book, Contemporary Black American Ceramic Artists, Schiffer Publishing. She has been in residence at the John Michael Kohler Artist Residency, and is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Teaching and Research grant. Dean was the inaugural MJ DO Good resident at Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana, held the position of studio manager at Wesleyan Potters in Middletown, Connecticut, and is the recipient of a Connecticut Arts Grant. She has lectured and exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions and has taught at institutions including Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India, University of Connecticut, Connecticut College, and Hartford Art School.
Yuichiro Onishi teaches in the Department of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies Program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is the author of Transpacific Antiracism (NYU Press 2013) and co-editor of Transpacific Correspondence (Palgrave 2019). He currently chairs the Department of African American & African Studies.
Leo and Doris Hodroff Gallery The phrase “ebb and flow” is defined as a recurrent or rhythmical pattern of coming and going or decline and regrowth. It is often used to evoke a sense of calm by suggesting that lows will be followed by highs in an endless and certain course. This usage, however, belies the fact that ebbing and flowing also describes the often fierce dynamism and unpredictability of natural and emotional reality. Addressing the violence of separation, the…
