Appearances
Celebrated keynote speaker
Lewis is a sought-after public speaker whose mainstage TED Talk has garnered over three million views. She has delivered keynote commencement addresses at venues ranging from the UN General Assembly and the Edinburgh International Festival to World Business Forum and Yale University, as well as numerous universities and organizations across the United States and abroad.
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“A Writers’ Celebration of Romare Bearden, with Elizabeth Alexander, Stanley Crouch, Kwame Dawes, Khalil G. Muhammad, Sarah Lewis, and John Edgar Wideman,” 92nd Street Y, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., “Art and Architecture: Creating Community”
“Multiple Modernities and Global Art Worlds,” College Art Association, co-chaired with Leslie King-Hammond
Savannah College of Art and Design, deFINE Art Festival, Atlanta, GA, Keynote
“Pictures and Progress,” American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD
“Pictures and Progress: Frederick Douglass, The Circassian Beauties and American Racial Formation,” Yale University, History of Art Department
“‘Go Back to Russia! Go Back to Africa!’: Circassian Beauties and American Racial Formation,” The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale
Here and Now: African American Art and Film conference, sponsored by W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University and Tisch School of the Arts, New York University