SBU Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery Presents: Alumni Panel Of The ‘60s & ‘70s

Press release from SBU:

Feb. 7, 2023

Alumni Panel of the ‘60s & ‘70s:

Black student history, student activism, and the formation of the Black Studies Program (now Africana Studies) at Stony Brook University

Tuesday, February 7, 5:30pm-6:30pm

Student Union Ballroom, Stony Brook University

Panelists: Deborah Britton-Riley, Mitchel Cohen, Dr. Linda Humes, and Dr. Les Owens

Location: Stony Brook University, Student Union, Ballroom

Zuccaire Gallery open hours: 12-8pm, 1st Fl Staller Center

Guided tour of Revisiting 5+1 at 4:30pm

Refreshments served in the Union Ballroom beginning at 5pm

The Zuccaire Gallery is proud to present an Alumni Panel featuring Stony Brook University alumni from the ‘60s and ‘70s. Join us Tuesday, February 7 as we explore the legacy of Black student history, student activism, and the formation of the Black Studies Program (now Africana Studies) at Stony Brook University. This program is organized in collaboration with the Department of Africana Studies, the Black History Month Planning Committee, and the Alumni Association.

Panelists:
Deborah Britton-Riley
Stony Brook University class of 1973-1981; Co-founder, Black Womyn's Association at Stony Brook University; Director, Liberty Partnerships Program, Stony Brook University, 1992-2010; Coordinator, New Student and Transition Programs, Stony Brook University, 2022- present.

Mitchel Cohen
Stony Brook University class of 1965-1974; Cofounder of the Red Balloon Collective; Radical troublemaker and organizer, poet, and author of several books, the latest being The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides (SkyHorse: new edition 2022); Banned from Stony Brook campus three times.

Dr. Linda Humes
Africana Studies Major; Stony Brook University class of 1974-1977; Vice President of Black Student Union at Stony Brook University; Co-Founder of the first Black Theater Club 1974-1976; Department Student speaker graduation 5/1977

Dr. Les Owens
Professor, Africana Studies Department, 1978-2015, Stony Brook University

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Presented in connection with the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery exhibition Revisiting 5+1 which showcases the story of 5+1, a historical exhibition of Black artists working in abstraction that took place at Stony Brook University in 1969 during the first semester of courses in the Black Studies Program. Revisiting 5+1 is on view through March 31 at the Zuccaire Gallery, first floor of the Staller Center for the Arts. Free admission.

Guided Tour Before the Panel Discussion 4:30-5:00pm

Join us for a 30-minute guided tour of Revisiting 5+1

Tuesday, February 7 at 4:30pm

Zuccaire Gallery,1st Floor Staller Center for the Arts

The guided tour will focus on the history of 5+1 and student activism on Stony Brook’s campus in the late 1960s.

Revisiting 5+1 is a reflection on the historic 1969 Stony Brook University exhibition entitled 5+1.

Revisiting 5+1 features work by the original six artists, all of whom were Black men, with an addition of six Black women artists, all trailblazers at a time when their work in abstraction was challenged by both the mainstream art world and Black art institutions. Photographs and archival materials exhibited alongside the work provide additional contextual history from this era of student protests and racial justice on campus. Learn more.

Open through March 31. Free and open to the public.
Hours: Monday-Friday 12-4pm and evenings of Staller Center performances.

This press release was produced by SBU. The views expressed here are the author's own.