Future of the Past: Black Lives Matter | Lesley University 2016

Symposium Info:

Lesley University and Violence Transformed present their 3rd annual "Future of the Past" series, celebrating the power of art to transform violence. This year's event will focus on institutionalized racism and the Black Lives Matter movement, including a short video featuring author and incarceration activist Michelle Alexander, and a panel discussion with educators and artists Phillip Harvey, Bailey Ray, L'Merchie Frazier and Dev Luthra. For more information about our panelists, please visit http://www.lesley.edu/future-of-the-past/black-lives-matter/.

A reception and art exhibit will follow the discussion, featuring area artists whose works confront and imagine alternatives to violence at local, national and international levels, address issues of protest, refuge, survival, and commemoration; and give expression to the power of art to heal and enrich our lives and our communities.

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: Mary R. Harvey, PhD, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; founding director, Victims of Violence (VOV) Program, Cambridge Health Alliance; practicing artist and founding director, Violence Transformed.

: Nancy Beardall, PhD, Associate Professor and Program Coordinator, Dance/Movement Therapy Program, Graduate School of Art and Social Sciences, Lesley University

: Phillip Harvey, Fellow, National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) and US State Department International Visual Arts Institute; JP Morgan Fellow in Arts Management; Faculty, Africana Studies Department at the John Jay College School of Criminal Justice, City College of New York

: Dev Luthra, Artistic Director, And Still We Rise Productions

: (left) Bailey Ray, editorial professional, freelance writer, and stage performer; (right) L’Merchie Frazier, visual and performance artist/educator/consultant