Barbara Kingsolver’s Harrison Shepherd takes an epic journey from the Mexico of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. Following a conversation about The Lacuna, take a docent-led visit to Ancient Americas, Spanish Colonial, and Heritage galleries to see connections to our art. “I only thought […]
Isabel Wilkerson’s book follows three individuals, representative of the six million Black Southerners who participated in the Great Migration to northern or western destinations. The Wall Street Journal’s review of this work states “Ms. Wilkerson does for the Great Migration what John Steinbeck did for the Okies in his fiction masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath.” […]
Precarious Life is a poetic response to the visual art of the exhibition Whitfield Lovell: Passages. This performance features original poetry by de’Angelo DIA, Diamond Forde, Olivia Dorsey Peacock, Tyree Daye, and xavia-margrith miles with Seth Peagler. It is a poetic examination of identity, reconciliation, and collective heritage. At times, the performance is a lament, a […]