Join Carolyn M. Laferrière, the Museum’s associate curator of ancient Mediterranean art; Nathan Arrington, professor of art and archaeology and chair of the Department of Art & Archaeology, chair of the Index of Medieval Art, and interim director of the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art; Barbara Graziosi, chair of the Department of Classics, Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature, and professor of Classics; and Anna Arabindan-Kesson, associate professor of art and archaeology and African American studies, for a conversation about the exhibition Roberto Lugo / Orange and Black. Panelists will discuss the works on view from their distinct scholarly perspectives, underscoring how Lugo’s work can be not only positioned within the history of ceramic making but also framed in discussions of how the medium of ceramics has been used for facilitating storytelling, establishing social and political relationships, and commenting on humankind’s everyday lived experiences. 

Reception to follow.

LATE THURSDAYS! This event is part of the Museum’s Late Thursdays programming, made possible in part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970. 

Additional support for  Roberto Lugo / Orange and Black is provided by the Curtis W. McGraw Foundation; the Edna W. Andrade Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation; and Princeton University’s Humanities Council, Program in Latin American Studies, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies (with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund), Department of African American Studies, Graduate School—Access, Diversity and Inclusion, Effron Center for the Study of America, and Program in Latino Studies.  

Image: Roberto Lugo, What Had Happened Was: The Path, from the series Orange and Black, 2024. © Roberto Lugo. Courtesy of Roberto Lugo and R & Company, New York. Photo: Joseph Hu