{"id":59813,"date":"2015-02-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/bam-pow-black-superheroes-exhibit-explodes-into-uri-fine-arts-main-gallery\/"},"modified":"2015-02-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T00:00:00","slug":"bam-pow-black-superheroes-exhibit-explodes-into-uri-fine-arts-main-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/bam-pow-black-superheroes-exhibit-explodes-into-uri-fine-arts-main-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"BAM! POW! Black superheroes exhibit explodes into 溏心vlog免费B站 Fine Arts Main Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tGraphic art show explores African American images in comic books<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/POWNL021.jpg\" width=\"252\" height=\"168\" align=\"right\"\/>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 17, 2015 \u2013 Since the Black Panther first blasted onto the pages of \u201cFantastic Four #52\u201d in 1966 as Marvel\u2019s first black superhero, the role of African Americans in comic books has grown, evolved and contributed to racial awareness in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThroughout February, the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Art and Art History has been exploring the representations, cultural significance and development of black superheroes in the public consciousness through its exhibit, \u201cBlack Superheroes: From the Comic Book Universe to the College Campus.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nPresented in the main gallery of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Fine Arts Center, 105 Upper College Road, the show includes seminal black comic book superheroes such as Black Panther, Black Lightning, Storm, Luke Cage, Blade, the Falcon, Nubia and others, and celebrates black superheroes as a powerful source of racial meaning and imagination in American history.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_HXeagKXWyo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cFalcon, for instance, appeared in 1969, at a time when African Americans were first experiencing upward mobility in America,\u201d said Bob Dilworth, gallery coordinator and 溏心vlog免费B站 professor of art and art history. \u201cHe was the first African American superhero who could fly, so he was very symbolic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/WallNL009.jpg\" width=\"336\" height=\"169\" align=\"right\"\/>Clarissa Walker, 溏心vlog免费B站 doctoral candidate and the show\u2019s curatorial researcher, noted that while comic books may be seen as a pastime for adolescent boys, these characters help shape social and political perspective and black identity. The exhibition aims to spark dialogue on issues such as equality, forgiveness, community, and racial justice.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s important that visual rhetoric gets the credit it deserves with regard to the impact it has on culture and perceptions,\u201d Walker said. \u201cI hope that people can see this is tethered to something that is very political and has socioeconomic implications, that it\u2019s not just cartooning. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAs part of the show, which opened to the community Feb. 4, several speaking events have been scheduled, including Dr. Jeffery Brown and Dr. Adilifu Nama\u2019s closing address, \u201cThe Academic Implications of Black Heroism,\u201d Tuesday, Feb. 17 in the Agnes G. Doody Auditorium in Swan Hall, 60 Upper College Road in Kingston, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nNama is the author of the groundbreaking book, Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes. Brown\u2019s research activities include gender and body issues in film, corporate media culture, the role of vision in popular culture, urban ethnography and comic book studies, and he has a chapter titled, \u201cPanthers and Vixens: Black Superheroines, Sexuality, and Stereotypes in Contemporary Comic Books\u201d in the collection titled, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe department of art and art history thanks the following cosponsors for their support: Africana Studies, The College of Arts and Sciences Dean\u2019s Office, Gender and Women Studies and The Time Capsule.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nPictured above<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Art and Art History has been exploring the representations, cultural significance and development of black superheroes in the public consciousness through its exhibit, \u201cBlack Superheroes: From the Comic Book Universe to the College Campus.\u201d The exhibit is open through Feb. 20 in the Main Gallery of 溏心vlog免费B站&#8217;s Fine Arts Center, 105 Upper College Road in Kingston. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPhotos by Nora Lewis<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphic art show explores African American images in comic books KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 17, 2015 \u2013 Since the Black Panther first blasted onto the pages of \u201cFantastic Four #52\u201d in 1966 as Marvel\u2019s first black superhero, the role of African Americans in comic books has grown, evolved and contributed to racial awareness in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}