"Attacks on Arts and Culture: How Community Can Save Them"
"Attacks on Arts and Culture: How Community Can Save Them"
"Attacks on Art and Culture: How Community Can Save Them."
Please join us on May 1st, 2025 for the Department of American Studies' 2025 Savneet Talwar Lecture featuring award-winning publisher, activist, filmmaker, cultural arts curator, Detroit Poet Laureate, and founder of Black Women Rock, jessica Care moore.
In this dynamic presentation, moore will share her groundbreaking work in film, literature, and creative placemaking while offering compelling strategies for using art and imagination to transform lives, inspire communities, and create change in uncertain times. Book signing to follow.
This event is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required due to limited space.
Learn more and RSVP at: https://SavneetTalwar2025.eventbrite.com
About jessica Care moore
As a Black and woman-owned publisher, Moore supports new and emerging talent while offering her poetics and performance to placemaking initiatives across her home state of Michigan and beyond. Recently, Moore added filmmaker to her repertoire, writing and starring in "He Looked Like A Postcard," a semi-autobiographical feature film she describes as a "love letter" to the city of Detroit. This film is currently hitting the film festival circuit. Finally, Moore is the kind of down-to-earth multi-hyphenate writer/artist/cultural curator who thrives from making connections with people through mentoring, dialog and discussions. She is an ideal speaker to help us think critically and act consciously as we navigate these uncertain times and continue to use art and culture to build new worlds where creative communities emerge and thrive.
About the Savneet Talwar Speaker Series
The Savneet Talwar Speaker Series is named after University of Maryland American Studies alumna, Professor Savneet Talwar. Talwar currently chairs the graduate art therapy and counseling program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Art Therapy for Social Justice: Radical Intersection and has published in Arts in Psychotherapy, Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, and Gender Issues in Art Therapy. Past Savneet Talwar Speakers include Dr. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (2024).
Thank you to our generous co-sponsors from UMD...
Arts for All at Maryland
The Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership Through the Humanities
Department of English and the Center for Literary and Comparative Studies
Department of African American and Africana Studies through The John B. Slaughter Endowment
David C. Driskell Center
Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
The African American Digital and Experimental Humanities (AADHum) Initiative
"Attacks on Art and Culture: How Community Can Save Them."
Please join us on May 1st, 2025 for the Department of American Studies' 2025 Savneet Talwar Lecture featuring award-winning publisher, activist, filmmaker, cultural arts curator, Detroit Poet Laureate, and founder of Black Women Rock, jessica Care moore.
In this dynamic presentation, moore will share her groundbreaking work in film, literature, and creative placemaking while offering compelling strategies for using art and imagination to transform lives, inspire communities, and create change in uncertain times. Book signing to follow.
This event is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required due to limited space.
Learn more and RSVP at: https://SavneetTalwar2025.eventbrite.com
About jessica Care moore
As a Black and woman-owned publisher, Moore supports new and emerging talent while offering her poetics and performance to placemaking initiatives across her home state of Michigan and beyond. Recently, Moore added filmmaker to her repertoire, writing and starring in "He Looked Like A Postcard," a semi-autobiographical feature film she describes as a "love letter" to the city of Detroit. This film is currently hitting the film festival circuit. Finally, Moore is the kind of down-to-earth multi-hyphenate writer/artist/cultural curator who thrives from making connections with people through mentoring, dialog and discussions. She is an ideal speaker to help us think critically and act consciously as we navigate these uncertain times and continue to use art and culture to build new worlds where creative communities emerge and thrive.
About the Savneet Talwar Speaker Series
The Savneet Talwar Speaker Series is named after University of Maryland American Studies alumna, Professor Savneet Talwar. Talwar currently chairs the graduate art therapy and counseling program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Art Therapy for Social Justice: Radical Intersection and has published in Arts in Psychotherapy, Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, and Gender Issues in Art Therapy. Past Savneet Talwar Speakers include Dr. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan (2024).