Sarah Lewis, art historian, curator, and author of The Rise: Creativity, The Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery, and Kevin Young, the Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English, Curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University, will come together for an engaging evening of conversation on Tuesday, March 25 at 6:30 p.m. at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art.
The conversation will cover each writers’ interdisciplinary projects and the Black female radical imagination. A book signing follows.
About the Authors
Sarah Lewis has served on President Barack Obama’s Arts Policy Committee, been selected for Oprah’s “Power List,” and is a faculty member at Yale University, School of Art in the MFA program.
Kevin Young is a contributor to the Renée Stout: Tales of the Conjure Woman exhibition catalogue. (The Renee Stout exhibition is currently on view at Spelman Museum through May 17, 2014). Lauded as “one of the most talented poets in the United States,” Young's most recent publication is a collection of poems titled Book of Hours.
This program is organized in collaboration with Spelman College's English Department, Art and the Art History Department, Honors Program, and the AJC Decatur Book Festival.
The Museum is located at 350 Spelman Lane SW, Atlanta GA 30314 (GPS address: 440 Westview Drive, S.W. Atlanta 30310).
For more information call 404-270-5607. The event is free and open to the public.
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