MacArthur Prize–winning artist Kara Walker will visit Princeton University as the Humanities Council's Spring 2025 Belknap Visitor in the Humanities. As part of her visit, Walker will deliver a public lecture, titled "Working the Negative Space," which will provide a look at her groundbreaking past and future work. The lecture is part of the Council's yearlong Baldwin Circles project and is cosponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum.
This event is free and open to the public, but a ticket is required. Reserve your ticket on the University's ticketing site.
The Belknap Visitors in the Humanities program was created to recognize distinguished individuals in the arts and letters. Previous visitors include Toni Morrison, Eudora Welty, Nadine Gordimer, Roy Lichtenstein, John Updike, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Peter Sellars, Arthur Miller, Twyla Tharp, Maurice Sendak, Ghiora Aharoni, Wim Wenders, Meryl Streep, Robert Alter, Maya Lin, and Stephen Sondheim.
About Kara Walker
New York-based artist Kara Walker is best known for her candid investigations of race, gender, power, and national mythologies via her signature cut-paper silhouettes. She is the recipient of many awards, notably the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award in 1997 and the United States Artists, Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship in 2008.
Walker is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (elected 2012) and the American Philosophical Society (elected 2018) and was named an Honorary Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 2019. Her works are in the collections of prominent museums and public institutions throughout the United States and Europe, including the Kunstmuseum Basel’s Kupferstichkabinett (Department of Prints and Drawings); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Tate Gallery, London; the Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI), Rome; and the Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt.
