Queering the Collection: Sylvia Jones

Saturday, February 22, 2025, 2–3 p.m.
Sylvia Jones

Location: Galleries
Registration is required.

Join Sylvia Jones, a writer and prison abolitionist, and Jo Briggs, Jennie Walters Delano Curator of 18th- and 19th-Century Art, to explore invisibility and concealment in the lives of artists. Follow Jones and Briggs through the galleries as they discuss the hidden labor of workers in the production of ceramics and the societal constraints on 19th-century artists.

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Queering the Collection is an in-gallery program series that invites artists and scholars to participate in conversations that connect queer-identifying perspectives with artistic and art-historical knowledge about works in our collection. Speakers will discuss works of art in our galleries, followed by a Q&A session with the audience.

Available resources: Assistive Listening Devices, Seating, Sensory Kits
Accessibility resources and accommodations are available for programs and events. Please email [email protected] with questions and requests. We will make every effort to provide accommodations. Visit our accessibility web page for more information.

About the Artist

Sylvia Jones‘ debut poetry collection, Television Fathers, released October 2024 from Meekling Press. Jones serves as an editor at Black Lawrence Press and intermittently reads for the journal Ploughshares. She teaches creative writing at George Washington University and with Goucher’s Prison Education Program. She’s received support from the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts; Topical Cream; Jack Straw Cultural Center; The Emerging Artist Initiative; Poets at the End of The World Collective; Creative Capital; Maryland State Arts Council; UMBC; The Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Community Center of New York; and the Cleveland Museum of Art. She received her MFA from American University in Washington D.C., and she currently writes and resides happily in Baltimore.

Date

Saturday, February 22, 2025

Time

2–3 p.m.

Categories

Talks & Lectures

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