Black is the Color of My True Love's Skin - Dr. Lanisa Kitchiner

This semester’s First Friday Lecture for Art History is Dr. Lanisa Kitchiner who will present her research on South African artist Mary Sibande on Friday, March 5 at Noon.

Lanisa S. Kitchiner, Ph.D., is a cultural studies scholar who researches representations of black women in South African art, literature, and film. Dr. Kitchiner was recently appointed the chief of the African and Middle Eastern Division at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and her talk will examine how South African artist Mary Sibande uses black mannequins to reconstruct black womanhood in her debut exhibition, Long Live the Dead Queen.

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