Indo-Caribbean Artist Lucilda Dassardo-Cooper presents "Hybrid Identities, Multiple Subjectivities: Indo-Caribbean Art" Fri., April 15, at 4:30 p.m. in the Red Pit. Dassardo-Cooper will focus her discussion on the expression of racial, sexual and gendered identity through painting. The lecture, sponsored by The Jane Watson Irwin Endowment, is free and open to the public.
Her work has been exhibited at National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, Superior Court in Washington, D.C., Hood College, Northeastern University, Salem State College, Worcester State College and Massachusetts College of Art.
Born in Jamaica of African and Indian ancestry, Dassardo-Cooper earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She has taught art at Massachusetts Bay Community College, Roxbury Community College, Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Art in Boston and at the Fillmore Art Center in Washington, D.C.
Her work has been exhibited at National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi, U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, Superior Court in Washington, D.C., Hood College, Northeastern University, Salem State College, Worcester State College and Massachusetts College of Art.
Born in Jamaica of African and Indian ancestry, Dassardo-Cooper earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She has taught art at Massachusetts Bay Community College, Roxbury Community College, Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Art in Boston and at the Fillmore Art Center in Washington, D.C.
