Marcie will talk about her own relationship with crime fiction, her work with people in correctional facilities, share poetry inspired by these topics, and talk about the intersection between corrections, trauma, art, and healing.
Art can deepen our understanding of our shared narrative and anchor our knowledge of ourselves. Join artists from the group AHHA! (Artistry. Honesty. Healing. Action!) as they interpret American history through images of the Black experience. Black history is American history. In this artist talk, Beverly Tipton Hammond shares the powerful historical connection between African Women’s Head Dress and the hats worn today in the church by African American women.
Art can deepen our understanding of our shared narrative and anchor our knowledge of ourselves. Join artists from the group AHHA! (Artistry. Honesty. Healing. Action!) as they interpret American history through images of the Black experience. Black history is American history. This artist talk with A. Drew Hammond is an examination of images that connect the 16th century origins of American white supremacy with African Americans’ 400-year history of struggle to resist and overcome it.
Art can deepen our understanding of our shared narrative and anchor our knowledge of ourselves. Join artists from the group AHHA! (Artistry. Honesty. Healing. Action!) as they interpret American history through images of the Black experience. Black history is American history. Hear from Kennedy Simpson as she discusses the question: how have Black people struggled to create and interrogate images of self-identity in a historical context of white racism?
Art can deepen our understanding of our shared narrative and anchor our knowledge of ourselves. Join artists from the group AHHA! (Artistry. Honesty. Healing. Action!) as they interpret American history through images of the Black experience. Black history is American history. Through images, Donald Walker will explore the essential nature of our nation’s tragic and enduring contradiction between the goal of equality before the law and the reality of subjugation and marginalization.