Theresa Roberts Art Collection Webinar
- Region: East of England
- Type: Conference
- Cost: Free
Explore the Theresa Roberts Art Collection and its new home at the Wilberforce Institute in this webinar on art, culture and collaboration.
The webinar centres on the Theresa Roberts Art Collection. Theresa Roberts is the Jamaican Ambassador for Culture to the UK, Special Envoy for Trade and a private art collector. She has amassed a collection of 80 original artworks by Jamaican artists that reference colonial exploitation and Independence. Roberts has generously agreed for the Wilberforce Institute to become the institutional home for this collection. The webinar will explore this collaboration and feature a discussion about the collection itself.
The conversation includes:
Theresa Roberts, Jamaican Ambassador for Culture to the UK and art collector.
Dr Emma Roberts, Associate Dean for Global Engagement at Liverpool John Moores University and curator of Jamaica Making: The Theresa Roberts Art Collection at the Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool (2022).
Professor Rina Arya, Head of School of the Arts at the University of Hull.
Dr Cassandra Gooptar, Lecturer of Legacies of Slavery at the Wilberforce Institute.
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