{"id":8054,"date":"2021-03-18T14:11:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T19:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/art\/?page_id=8054"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:09:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T13:09:47","slug":"tk-smith-gives-virtual-lecture-abstraction-as-a-state-of-being-identity-fragmented-archives-and-the-photographs-of-chandra-mccormick-and-keith-calhoun","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/art\/tk-smith-gives-virtual-lecture-abstraction-as-a-state-of-being-identity-fragmented-archives-and-the-photographs-of-chandra-mccormick-and-keith-calhoun\/","title":{"rendered":"TK Smith gives virtual lecture, Abstraction as a State of Being: Identity, Fragmented Archives, and the Photographs of Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On October 22, 2020, TK Smith joined St. Olaf College, virtually, to give his lecture, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abstraction as a State of Being: Identity, Fragmented Archives, and the Photographs of Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The lecture expanded <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">upon his essay on McCormick and Calhoun\u2019s photographs, which accompanied the Flaten Art Museum exhibition <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We No Longer Consider Them Damaged<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. TK\u2019s talk considered abstraction as a longstanding strategy among the Black community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TK Smith is a Philadelphia based writer, art critic, curator, and a PhD candidate in the American Civilization Program at the University of Delaware. Smith received his MA in American Studies and his BA in English and African American Studies from Saint Louis University. Smith\u2019s research interests lie in American art, material culture, and the built environment. Smith most recently curated <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Looming Chaos<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the Zuckerman Museum of Art as an inaugural Tina Dunkley Fellow at Clark Atlanta University Art Museum. The 2020 exhibition featured the fiber abstractions of Atlanta based artist Zipporah Camille Thompson. His writing has been published in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Art Papers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Burnaway<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ARTS ATL.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you, TK, for contributing to our exhibition, visiting our classes, and giving this insightful lecture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/multimedia\/play\/?e=3131\">Click here to watch the archived lecture.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/flaten\/lecture-with-t-k-smith-abstraction-as-a-state-of-being\/\">Click here to visit the event webpage.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8055\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/art\/tk-smith-gives-virtual-lecture-abstraction-as-a-state-of-being-identity-fragmented-archives-and-the-photographs-of-chandra-mccormick-and-keith-calhoun\/tk\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/art\/files\/2021\/03\/TK.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"342,512\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TK\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/art\/files\/2021\/03\/TK.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8055 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/art\/files\/2021\/03\/TK.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"512\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 22, 2020, TK Smith joined St. Olaf College, virtually, to give his lecture, Abstraction as a State of Being: Identity, Fragmented Archives, and the Photographs of Chandra McCormick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3509,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8054","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8054"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8690,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8054\/revisions\/8690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}