'Researching Legacies for 'Rise Up': Resistance, Revolution, Abolition'
Professor Victoria Avery (Keeper of European Sculpture & Decorative Arts, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Professor of European Sculpture, University of Cambridge)
Thursday 27th February, 2025
- This is a hybrid event, held at the Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site and Online
- To join online, please use the following link: https://rb.gy/94uzt1.
Join Vicky Avery as she explains the key themes and narratives of the Fitzwilliam Museum's second Legacies-themed exhibition, Rise Up, and her curatorial aims. Vicky will share insights into how the latest research into Abolition and emancipation has been imbedded into the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue and public programmes, and how learnings from its predecessor show, Black Atlantic, have been imbedded. She will be joined by Dr Lila O'Leary Chambers, Rise Up's Academic Consultant, for brief conversation before a Q&A.
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), Feast & Fast: The Art of Food in Europe, 1500-1800 (2019) and Michelangelo: Sculpture in Bronze (2018). She 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).