You are invited to a panel discussion Calling Out Race: Art and Activism on Friday, Feb. 3, from 5:30–7 p.m. in the Turner Jazz Center, Harmon Fine Arts Center. The panel will explore ways that artists and activists work to change current ideologies of race and racism. Panelists will include: Ako Abdul-Samad, former lieutenant of distribution for the Black Panther Party in Des Moines in the 1960s and 70s; Patti Miller, a Drake student in the 1960s who participated in Freedom Summer Project in Mississippi in 1964; artist Nate Young, whose art includes video, sculpture, and installation; and Phillip Chen, a print artist. Both Young and Chen pinpoint racist attitudes and offer different ways to imagine race through art.

Lenore Metrick-Chen, associate professor of art history, will be the panel moderator. This panel is offered in conjunction with the exhibition A Thin But Powerful Difference: Race | Embodiment, which is running through Feb. 19 at Drake’s Anderson Gallery.

— Lilah Anderson, Anderson Gallery Exhibitions and Community Engagement Manager