"Tag Humanities"

How have art and medicine converged historically, and how do they do so today? This talk centers on the work of Black diaspora artists, tracking art history's medical imaginaries and the stories they help us narrate about how health, well-being, and care connect us.

Anna Arabindan-Kesson is an immigrant writer and curator. A former nurse, she later completed a PhD in African American Studies and Art History at Yale University. She holds the position of Associate Professor of Black Diasporic Art at Princeton University, is the director of Art Hx, a platform for exploring art and medicine, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.