Join us for I See the Moon: On Black Art — A Conversation with Erica Cardwell and I. Augustus Durham!
Erica N. Cardwell is a writer, art critic, and educator based in Toronto. She is the recipient of a 2021 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her book, Wrong is Not My Name; Notes on Black Art (Feminist Press, 2024). She considers the consciousness and imaginations of people of color as a tool for social, spiritual, and collective movement. Erica centers Black feminist theory as her primary critical approach and often writes about print and paper-making practices, archival media, and interdisciplinary performance. Her writing has appeared in ARTS.BLACK, Art in America, Frieze, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, C Magazine, The Kenyon Review, and other publications. Erica is currently Manuscript co-editor of Radical Teacher Journal and is a member of the International Art Critics Association and ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English). She has written exhibition and catalogue essays for artists such as Crystal Z. Campbell, Rico Gatson, Samantha Box, Chitra Ganesh, and Sandra Brewster. Erica is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Toronto Scarborough.
I. Augustus Durham is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto. A former President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of Maryland, College Park, he worked in New York prior to his arrival at Toronto.
His research interests span numerous centuries to account for the emergence, presence, and meaning of blackness in modernity. Durham’s first monograph is Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius (Duke University Press, 2023). He has published work in Syndicate, Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, and Journal of Religion and Health; and an essay on the film Moonlight for an edited collection on Tarell Alvin McCraney. Durham is currently working on three new projects regarding a singer, a calendar year, and (re)invention.
