'Juke' Artist Talk and Reception Moved to Wednesday, March 2
SALISBURY, MD---Can music have its own race? Can a song be used as an instrument to provoke a conversation about race?
These are the questions visual artist Jefferson Pinder seeks to answer with his video installation “Juke” through March 20 at ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥’s Electronic Gallery, Teacher Education and Technology Center (TETC) Room 128.
An artist talk and reception is 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, in TETC Room 153.
Pinder's work provides personal and social commentary using music as an accessible and familiar format. The Washington, D.C.-based artist has exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery; the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT; and the Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw, Poland. Pinder is an assistant professor of art at the University of Maryland College Park.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, noon-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Admission is free and the public is invited. For more information call 410-548-2547 or visit the SU Web site at www.salisbury.edu.