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Mar 31 2022

Artist-Activists Reimagining Justice: Quenna Lené Barrett and JeeYeun Lee

Women's History Month

March 31, 2022

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Location

Zoom

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How do women and gender non-conforming artists who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color decide to use their creative skills to bolster social justice movements? How does their work engage racial and economic justice to imagine new possibilities with and for their local communities and beyond? How do they bring this work into the academy and vice-versa?

This Women’s History Month, the UIC Women’s Leadership and Resource Center is hosting dialogues with artists, activists, and educators to explore these questions and inspire new ways to work collectively toward a better world.

CART live captioning will be provided. Please send any questions or access requests to wlrc@uic.edu.

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WLRC
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Date posted

Mar 14, 2022

Date updated

Mar 14, 2022

Speakers

Quenna Lené Barrett

Quenna Lené Barrett is a theater artist + practitioner, whose work gathers folks of diverse backgrounds, centers marginalized identities, learns from Black radical wisdom, and then dreams collectively to act boldly through those learnings. She is the Associate Director of Education and Engagement at the Goodman Theatre, a company member with ICAH’s For Youth Inquiry company, an Associate Artist with Pivot Arts, an adjunct professor at DePaul University, and a member of the leadership circle of the Center for Performance and Civic Practice. Quenna received her BFA from NYU Tisch Drama, MA in Applied Theatre from USC, and is an EdD candidate in Educational Theatre at NYU Steinhardt. As a director, performer, facilitator, and writer, she has worked with DCASE and Honey Pot Performance, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Sojourn Theatre, The Theatre School at DePaul, Free Street, Pegasus, Court, eta, and Theater Unspeakable. Continuing to build the world she wants to see/live in, her most recent project was Re-writing the Declaration.

JeeYeun Lee

JeeYeun Lee is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores dynamics of history, power, and resistance through performance and socially engaged projects. Her work has been shown in Chicago, Detroit, Santa Fe, Ohio, Missouri, and France. She has worked with social justice and community-based organizations for over thirty years in immigrant rights, economic justice, LGBTQ issues, and domestic violence. She holds an M.F.A. in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art, M.A. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and B.A. in Linguistics from Stanford University.