National Cityscapes Conference

Submitted by Marc Lefkowitz on March 26, 2008 - 2:33pm.
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Mar 27 2008 - 12:00pm
Mar 29 2008 - 12:59pm

Location(s)

Cleveland Institute of Art
Cleveland, OH
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The annual Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities conference this year focuses on the city as a physical, socio-economic and political entity, as well as a real, imagined, and remembered place.

It kicks off on Thu 3/27 with the exhibit "The Mind of Cleveland" by artist Carl Pope, tfollowed by a keynote on his work by Nicholas Mirzoeff. Programs continue Friday and Saturday with discussions on creating and performing community, contested spaces and social divisions, organizing the city and looking at Cleveland's future, ending on Sat 3/29 with a talk by public artist Lee QuiƱones on the Lincoln-West High School mural project.