APPEARING: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2022 (VIEW FULL SCHEDULE)
VENUE: KRANNERT ART MUSEUM: 500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, IL 61820
Stacey Robinson is an Associate Professor of graphic design at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. He was a 2019-2020 Nasir Jones Hip-Hop Fellow at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research who completed his Masters of Fine Art at the University at Buffalo in 2015. For the last several years he has traveled internationally discussing the complexities of decolonized future spaces. As one half of the collaborative team “Black Kirby” with artist John Jennings, Stacey creates graphic novels, gallery exhibitions, lectures, and workshops that use world-building strategies to imagine new worlds inspired by Design, Hip-Hop, the Arts and Sciences, and diasporic African belief systems. His latest graphic novels are, ‘I Am Alfonso Jones’ written by Tony Medina (2017) is available from Lee & Low Books, and ‘Across the Tracks: Remembering Greenwood, Black Wall Street, and the Tulsa Race Massacre’, written Alverne Ball (2021) is available from Abrams Books. Recently exhibitions include: Ascension of Black Stillness (CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY) and The Black Angel of History (Carnegie Hall’s ‘Afrofuturism Festival) in 2022.