Art historians and curators Bridget Cooks and Nana Adusei-Poku discuss art, museums and demands for change in the age of Black Lives Matter with museum educator Stacey Shelnut-Hendrick. They consider the complexities of rethinking art history and museum practices through the lens of Blackness and explore how artists are imagining worlds of Black freedom.
Nana Adusei-Poku is an assistant professor in African Diasporic art history in the Department of History of Art at UC Berkeley.
Bridget Cooks is a professor at UC Irvine with a joint appointment in visual culture and African American studies. She is the author of the groundbreaking book "Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum" (2010).
Stacey Shelnut-Hendrick, is the deputy director of public engagement and learning at the Chrysler Museum of Art, and is s known for innovative community-based museum programs, such as Crocker Art Museum's Block by Block.