JMS Network with Marlene Smith
We are delighted to welcome Marlene Smith to the JMS Network Event in conversation with our JMS Administrator, Chizu Anucha, from 6-8pm at Kelvin Hall and online.
Date: Thursday 27 March 2025
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Kelvin Hall
Category: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Speaker: Marlene Smith
The James McCune Smith Scholarship is an initiative at the University of Glasgow for Black UK students to undertake a PhD in any discipline. This follows the legacy of the medical practitioner James McCune Smith, who was the first Black American to gain a medical degree, and he did so at Glasgow University in 1837. The JMS Network is a series of public events coordinated by the JMS Scholars and staff, which aims facilitate a space for pedagogical discourse around the lives and work of Black academics and creative practitioners in the UK.
Marlene Smith is a British artist and curator, and one of the founding members of the BLK Art Group.
She was director of The Public in West Bromwich and UK Research Manager for Black Artists and Modernism, a collaborative research project run by the University of the Arts London and Middlesex University. Her solo show, Ah Sugar,? opened in August 2024 at Cubitt Gallery, London and toured to the Reid Gallery at Glasgow School of Art. She has recently exhibited work as part of ‘Women in Revolt!’ at Tate Britain; ‘The More Things Change’ at Wolverhampton Art Gallery; ‘Cut & Mix’ New Art Exchange, Nottingham; ‘The Place Is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain’ Nottingham Contemporary.