Lyneise Williams will deliver a lecture titled “Refiguring Nation: The Art of Pedro Figari” at 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 21 in Yeager Recital Hall, located in the Center for the Arts on the Elon University campus. Williams’ appearance, part of the Art History at Elon Speaker Series, is free and open to the public.
Williams is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, specializing in the art of Latin America, the African diaspora and museum studies. Her publications include “Jean-Michel Basquiat: Not Just Another Dipped Barbie and Traveling Concepts: Making and Remaking Culture.” She will speak on Pedro Figari, the Uruguayan painter, about whom she wrote her dissertation.