Alumni Connections in Washington D.C.

Please join Columbia GSAPP and Professor Mabel O. Wilson ‘91 M.Arch in Washington D.C. for an afternoon reception at Zaytinya followed by the final lecture of America’s Architecture of Freedom and Unfreedom, the 74th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday, March 30th.

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM - Reception at Zaytinya
2:00 - 3:00 PM - A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

Mabel O. Wilson ’91 M.Arch is the Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, a Professor in African American and African Diasporic Studies, and the Director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University. At GSAPP she co-directs the Global Africa Lab. Wilson’s scholarship and projects have explored Black culture, race, and the built environment. She was a member of the design team for the award-winning Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia. She also cocurated the exhibition Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America (2021) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Learn more about this year’s Mellon Lectures.

This event is only open to Columbia University affiliates.