Education Resources
Scroll down for selected Lectures, Panel Discussions, and Museum Talks as well as teaching tools for classroom use
In Conversation: If Lab with Adrian Loving
Adrian Loving, author and noted contemporary art and music historian; visual artist and DJ/ Entrepreneur, joins our next In The Lab to explore his book Fade2Grey about social, economic, and racial barriers in education and his own experience in self publishing.
Fade To Grey Book Talk and Educator Forum - With Author and Educator Adrian Loving
Georgetown Day HS / May 3rd 2021
Presented by the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Axel F. Podcast: Loose Ends: Zagora
Join us for an in-depth dive into the classic Loose Ends album Zagora. Recorded in 2017, the Axel F crew featuring Jahsonic, Adrian Loving, DJ Stylus, and Ed Smith chop it up with the legendary DJ Spinna. Here we discuss UK soul, and Loose Ends' enduring legacy - with incorporated interviews and classic B-sides.
WASHINGTON, DC
A TRIBUTE TO KRAFTWERK, WITH DJS LOLA VILLA & ADRIAN LOVING
Artist discussion about German electronic artists Kraftwerk and their influence in dance music and our sound DJs and burgeoning producers.
A Tribute To Kraftwerk
A discussion with Adrian Loving and Lola Villa on the global influence of German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk in the genres of hip hop, electro, techno and house.
Hirshhorn Museum / Ring Auditorium
GOD SAID GIVE ‘EM DRUM MACHINES
FILM SCREENING AND PANEL DISCUSSION
Join music historian Adrian Loving, film director Kristian R. Hill, producer Jennifer Washington, and legendary Detroit DJ Delano Smith for a special rough-cut screening of the forthcoming documentary God Said Give ‘Em Drum Machines: The Story of Detroit Techno (2020) starring Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May, and Eddie Fowlkes. This film aims to capture the story behind one of Detroit’s greatest contributions to culture: Techno music, followed by an engaging discussion with the filmmakers.
More about this event
https://hirshhorn.si.edu/event/film-talk-the-story-of-detroit-techno/
Hirshhorn Museum - Ring Auditorium
DANCE ELECTRIC: ART & CLUB CULTURE SINCE STONEWALL 1969-1989
Join music historian Adrian Loving, DJ Danny Krivit, and vice president of content and exhibit development at the Newseum Patty Rhule for a talk that explores the influences of the American LGBTQ / Gay Rights movements on the music, art, and club culture of the 1970s and 80s. Beginning with the 1969 Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village, this talk will explore how prolific artists such as Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, ACT UP, Grace Jones, Bill T. Jones, Nam June Paik, Larry Levan, Isaac Julien, and Jennie Livingston engaged with and creatively responded to this turbulent era in ways that would change contemporary art culture for future generations.
National Gallery Of Art, Washington, DC
Hip-Hop’s Great Day: Gordon Parks and a Legacy of Photographic Inspiration
Harry Allen, “The Media Assassin” and journalist; Nelson George, filmmaker; Adrian Loving; artist and educator; Miles Marshall Lewis, author of There’s a Riot Goin’ On; Vikki Tobak, author of Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop. On February 17, 2019, the National Gallery of Art hosted a discussion celebrating the ingenuity, dedication, and power of Gordon Parks. Local artist and educator Adrian Loving and scholar Vikki Tobak explored the visual influences and legacy of Gordon Parks in photography and film. Parks’s famous photograph A Great Day In Hip Hop (published in XXL Magazine, September 1998)—itself a tribute to Art Kane’s 1958 photograph A Great Day in Harlem—was the touchstone of this discussion, held in association with Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940–1950.
Watch the lecture here
https://www.nga.gov/audio-video/video/hip-hops-big-day.html
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The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
CONTACT HIGH: A VISUAL HISTORY OF HIP-HOP
Journalist, author, and producer Vikki Tobak participates in a panel discussion celebrating her new book, Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop, which takes readers on a chronological journey from old-school to alternative Hip Hop and from analog to digital photography. The discussion will feature Chuck D and special guests including music historian/DJ Adrian Loving, along with industry legends Ernie Paniccioli, Janette Beckman, Danny Hastings, Fab 5 Freddy, Barron Claiborne, and Rhea L. Combs.
Scheduled for release in October 2018, the book features rare outtakes from more than 100 photoshoots, interviews, and essays from industry legends such as Bill Adler, Rhea L. Combs, Fab 5 Freddy, Michael Gonzales, Young Guru, DJ Premier, and RZA, in addition to a foreword by Questlove. This event is curated by Vikki Tobak and Adrian Loving.
Chicago Cultural Center
KEITH HARING x CLUB CULTURE
Legendary Hip Hop and culture auteur Fab 5 Freddy joins writer/music historians Vikki Tobak and Adrian Loving for an in-depth discussion on the Legacy of artist Keith Haring, the downtown New York art scene, and the cross-influence of club culture in New York and Chicago. DJs Frankie Knuckles, Larry Levan, The Paradise Garage, Warehouse, and the Loft will be discussed by pioneer Robert Williams. This event was presented by Ron Trent and the Chicago Cultural Center on behalf of the Chicago House Music Festival.
Volta Art Fair, New York
SHOOT TO THRILL: PICTURING IDENTITY IN NYC, 1977 - NOW
Panel Discussion at VOLTA New York with guests Bill Bernstein, Janette Beckman, Krista Schlueter Joe Conzo, and Adrian "DJ Stretch Armstrong" Bartos.
Discover photographic reflections on the music subcultures of disco, hip-hop, and early house music and how they served as safe spaces and communities for LGBT-defined people and people of color. Moderators Adrian loving and Vikki Tobak frame the conversation around these images within our contemporary context. Guests: Bill Bernstein, Janette Beckman, Krista Schlueter Joe Conzo, and Adrian "DJ Stretch Armstrong" Bartos.
The panel was followed by a book signing by Adrian DJ Stretch Armstrong Bartos, author of "No Sleep: NYC Nightlife Fliers 1988-1999" and Bill Bernstein with Disco: The Bill Bernstein Photographs.
