#  Exhibition Opening Discussion for Brown II with Artist Tomashi Jackson 

 



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 **September 20, 2021** 

 04:00PM - 06:00PM EDT 

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Monday, September 20,2021—Saturday, January 15, 2022  
**Opening Talk and Discussion**  
Monday, September 20, 4 PM EDT  
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    Sort    Sort    Sort    The artist Tomashi Jackson and Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, will engage in a wide-ranging conversation to mark the opening of Jackson’s new Radcliffe exhibition, [*Brown II*.](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us12.list-2Dmanage.com_track_click-3Fu-3D128e3e5be8e627b8fe8cc8bac-26id-3Dfe3206017f-26e-3D95aa7f82f7&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=mkqahl5yyMRAdUQInWqa6IfGx5BdK6IW-Vd0omuWxJaN-MTRKmfiQmmyFl_DE6Oe&m=vvCK7Xph2QHL7e6O03Mc8-vdLGM0qlG8GpEkuGUZ7cQ&s=tVPkMds1LmICg7utGKG7ZBbBIUAYiguhEK5otLmhfN0&e=)  
  
In *Brown II* and the exhibition’s accompanying publication, Jackson explores the challenges of implementing the landmark 1954 US Supreme Court decision *Brown v. Board of Education* *of Topeka*. Her work centers on the subsequent 1955 case (referred to as *Brown II*), which stated that the effort to desegregate schools in the United States was to be undertaken with “all deliberate speed.” Jackson and Brown-Nagin will consider the *Brown II* decision, its impact on individual and institutions, and the work that continues today. They will also discuss Jackson’s research in Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and the collaborative conceptual and artistic processes that Jackson pursued in developing the exhibition.  
  
Jackson combines a vibrant practice in painting and printmaking with archival research in the histories of law, urbanism, and social justice. *Brown II* offers a series of vibrant portraits of the activists Ruth Batson and Pauli Murray, whose courageous efforts were central to the advancement of Black freedom and civil rights. Jackson drew on source material from the collections of the Schlesinger Library, which detail Batson’s and Murray’s contributions to the continuing struggle for Black lives.  
  
Speakers:

- **Tomiko Brown-Nagin**, dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and chair of the Presidential Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, Harvard University
- **Tomashi Jackson**, artist
 
 Jackson, born in 1980 in Houston, Texas, lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in New York City. She has had solo museum exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Zuckerman Museum of Art, and another solo exhibition—*The Land Claim* at the Parrish Art Museum—is on view through November 7, 2021. Her work is in the group show *Off the Record* at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through September 27, 2021, and was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and other group shows at the Contemporary Art Center, in New Orleans; the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; MASS MoCA; and the Moody Center for the Arts. Among many other upcoming exhibitions, in 2022 her work will be included in *Working Thought: Art, Labor, and the American Economy* at the Carnegie Museum of Art and in *What is Left Unspoken,* *Love* at the High Museum of Art

 **You can register for this event by visiting** **[www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2021-opening-discussion-for-brown-ii-virtual](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us12.list-2Dmanage.com_track_click-3Fu-3D128e3e5be8e627b8fe8cc8bac-26id-3D63c088a151-26e-3D95aa7f82f7&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=mkqahl5yyMRAdUQInWqa6IfGx5BdK6IW-Vd0omuWxJaN-MTRKmfiQmmyFl_DE6Oe&m=vvCK7Xph2QHL7e6O03Mc8-vdLGM0qlG8GpEkuGUZ7cQ&s=59gjkNK7ZYy7RrPYI--zz6GfKC52sfa8enGVNNKWRNA&e=)**.  
  
*This event is free. All are welcome to attend.*  
  
**The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University**—known as Harvard Radcliffe Institute—is one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary exploration. We bring students, scholars, artists, and practitioners together to pursue curiosity-driven research, expand human understanding, and grapple with questions that demand insight from across disciplines. Learn more about the people and programs of Harvard Radcliffe Institute at [www.radcliffe.harvard.edu](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us12.list-2Dmanage.com_track_click-3Fu-3D128e3e5be8e627b8fe8cc8bac-26id-3Da581e9c14d-26e-3D95aa7f82f7&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=mkqahl5yyMRAdUQInWqa6IfGx5BdK6IW-Vd0omuWxJaN-MTRKmfiQmmyFl_DE6Oe&m=vvCK7Xph2QHL7e6O03Mc8-vdLGM0qlG8GpEkuGUZ7cQ&s=m3vksw_k_yAAAKFkc8eWz0ch0ufX_zR2sCZhaplgXsY&e=).

 



















  



 











  



 





  



 

  





 

 



 

 

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