Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition: Curatorial Insights and Reflection (including Q&A) with Professor Vicky Avery

Joy Labinjo, An Eighteenth-Century Family, 2022, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge © Joy Labinjo. Courtesy of the Artist and Tiwani Contemporary.

Overview

Join Professor Vicky Avery for an informal presentation explaining the key curatorial aims and narratives of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s second Legacies-themed exhibition, , and how learnings from its predecessor 2023 show, , have been imbedded.

Speaker

Professor Victoria Avery is Keeper of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Professor of European Sculpture at Cambridge University. Her recent publications include Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance (2023), and Feast & Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500–1800 (2019). Vicky was Co-Curator of Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance (2023) and is Lead Curator of the follow-on exhibition, Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition (21 Feb – 1 June 2025).

Details

This event is open to all and free to attend - .

Access

The Education Seminar Room + exhibition are both fully accessible via the visitor glass lift which is located just past the Courtyard entrance (step free access).

REACH Hub

This event is organised by ��Vlog�ٷ�'s REACH Research Hub, an interdisciplinary meeting place for the promotion and facilitation of culturally diverse research.

Header image: Joy Labinjo, An Eighteenth-Century Family, 2022, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge © Joy Labinjo. Courtesy of the Artist and Tiwani Contemporary.

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