{"id":9742,"date":"2024-02-28T23:22:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T04:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/?p=9742"},"modified":"2024-02-28T23:22:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T04:22:29","slug":"visiting-designer-lecture-series-kelly-walters-2-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/?p=9742","title":{"rendered":"VISITING DESIGNER LECTURE SERIES | Kelly Walters | 2\/27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/headshot_kwalters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"919\" src=\"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/headshot_kwalters-1024x919.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9788\" style=\"width:341px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/headshot_kwalters-1024x919.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/headshot_kwalters-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/headshot_kwalters-768x689.jpg 768w, https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/headshot_kwalters.jpg 1499w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brightpolkadot.com\/\">Kelly\u00a0Walters<\/a>\u00a0is an artist, designer, and founder of the multidisciplinary design studio Bright Polka Dot. Her ongoing design research interrogates identity formation and systems of value embedded in Black visual and material culture.\u00a0Kelly\u00a0has curated a number of exhibitions, including\u00a0<em>Kindred<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Open Dialogue: Artists + Designers of Afro-Caribbean Descent\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0Remix: Activating the Archive\u00a0<\/em>andreceived a Graham Foundation award for her exhibition\u00a0<em>With a Cast of Colored Stars\u00a0<\/em>in 2021.\u00a0Kelly\u00a0has written about Black American design histories and the impact of colonization on the construction of the Black image.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly\u00a0Walters\u00a0is an artist, designer, and founder of the multidisciplinary design studio Bright Polka Dot. Her ongoing design research interrogates identity formation and systems of value embedded in Black visual and material culture.\u00a0Kelly\u00a0has curated a number of exhibitions, including\u00a0Kindred,\u00a0Open Dialogue: Artists + Designers of Afro-Caribbean Descent\u00a0and\u00a0Remix: Activating the Archive\u00a0andreceived a Graham Foundation award for her exhibition\u00a0With &#8230; <a title=\"VISITING DESIGNER LECTURE SERIES | Kelly Walters | 2\/27\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/?p=9742\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VISITING DESIGNER LECTURE SERIES | Kelly Walters | 2\/27<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9742"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9790,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9742\/revisions\/9790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designing.rutgers.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}