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“Killing the Negative: A Conversation in Art and Verse” will be held Wednesday, Feb. 19 at 4 p.m. inside the Estep Multimedia Center located inside the Bill S. Cole University Center.

The East Central University event is free and open to the public.

According to Exhibit USA, “While looking through materials on Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects, visual artist Joel Daniel Phillips stumbled upon an image—a 1936 photograph by Walker Evans with a gaping black hole in the center.

“This chance discovery of a “killed negative” led Phillips and poet Quraysh Ali Lansana into a collaborative project, “Killing the Negative: Poetic Interventions,” that explores complex intersections of representation, truth, and power—crucial concepts that are at the center of our contemporary society.”

“I am privileged to be a contributor to this book project,” ECU professor and poet, Dr. Ken Hada, stated. “From the moment I was contacted about the project, I was excited about its significant possibilities in reaching a variety of audiences, across the state, and even the country.

“This program offers an intellectual but accessible understanding of some of our nation’s complex history. The live presentation of the art and poetic responses engenders a vital conversation with the audience on many layers, touching on representation, propaganda, visual rhetoric, economics, poetry and history, etc.”

Funding for this program is provided in part by a grant from Oklahoma Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of OH or NEH.

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