Join us for an artist talk by Center for Afrofuturist Studies artist-in-residence Courtney Desiree Morris. Courtney will share recent work and work-in-progress from her Iowa City residency.

free and open to all

The talk will also be livestreamed on the CAS Instagram.

Courtney Desiree Morris is a visual/performance artist and an assistant professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of To Defend This Sunrise: Black Women’s Activism and the Authoritarian Turn in Nicaragua (2023, Rutgers University Press). Her mediums include large-format portraiture and landscape photography, experimental video, performance art, and installation art. Her work is primarily concerned with ancestral memory, ritual work, ecology, climate change, death, mourning and funerary practice, erotics, and black feminist aesthetics.

Courtney’s residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Ruth Foundation for the Arts.