In conjunction with his exhibition "A Tondo for Rajon Rondo," currently on view at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, in celebration of Black History Month, and in collaboration with Flagler College's Melanin Vibes student club, visual artist and poet Jibade-Khalil Huffman will give a lecture entitled, "Who Will Employ the Black Avante Garde?: On Expression, Experimentation, and the Experience of Identity."

Jibade-Khalil Huffman is an artist and the author of three books of poems, “19 Names For Our Band (Fence, 2008), “James Brown is Dead (Future Plan and Program, 2011), and “Sleeper Hold” (Fence, 2015). His recent exhibitions include the Hammer Museum (2014), MOCA Detroit (2017), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2017), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (2015), Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia (2017), The Studio Museum in Harlem (2016), and Swiss Institute (2016). Educated at Bard College (BA), Brown University (MFA, Literary Arts), and USC (MFA, Studio Art), his awards include the Grolier Poetry Prize, the Jerome Foundation Travel Grant, and fellowships from the Lighthouse Works, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Huffman was a 2015-16 Artist in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and lives and works in New York.