Crime and Corrections: Art As Healing

White Bear Center for the Arts 4971 Long Ave, White Bear Lake, MN, United States

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.

Black Artistry Explains American History: Black Women and the Legacies of Africa

White Bear Center for the Arts 4971 Long Ave, White Bear Lake, MN, United States

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.

Black Artistry Explains American History: Four Centuries of Racism, Rage, and Resistance

White Bear Center for the Arts 4971 Long Ave, White Bear Lake, MN, United States

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.

Black Artistry Explains American History: White Racism and Personal Identity

White Bear Center for the Arts 4971 Long Ave, White Bear Lake, MN, United States

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?

Black Artistry Explains American History: Law and Racial Justice – Allies and Antagonists

White Bear Center for the Arts 4971 Long Ave, White Bear Lake, MN, United States

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.