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Celebrate the range and variety of artwork on view in In Conversation: Modern African American Art with a two-day festival of artwork, ideas and performance.

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MAKING ART

Drawing in the Galleries | 10-11:30 am | meet at information desk

Reservations by May 29

With guidance from life-drawing instructor David Ferreira, draw from a live model to explore the theme of the human body, stance and position in the work of the photographers and painters on view in In Conversation. Bring a wooden drawing board; other materials provided.

Collaborative Collage | 11 am-2 pm, Atrium

GALLERY TALK

Conversations in In Conversation | 11 am-noon |  meet at information desk

For adults

Art history professor Richard Powell leads a tour of this exhibition.

PRESENTATION

Black Lens: African American Life and Photography

1-2 pm | Morse Auditorium

Reservations by May 29

Photographer Marilyn Nance, celebrated for her visually arresting and intimate photographs of spiritual culture of the African diaspora, discusses her work. Curator of Photography Phillip Prodger joins Nance to discuss her work on view in In Conversation.

DANCE PERFORMANCE

EDGEWORKS Dance Theater | 2:15-3 pm, Atrium

ARTIST TALK

Power and Possibility: Visual Storytelling Through Children's Literature

3:15-4:15 pm | Morse Auditorium | For adults

Reservations by May 29

Join children's author and artist Bryan Collier as he discusses the influence of children's literature on his life and those around him.

FILM

Thornton Dial | 4:30-4:50 pm | Morse Auditorium

Tickets available on day of film

The documentary examines the extraordinary life and work of this 77-year-old contemporary artist from Bessemer, Ala., whose work appears in In Conversation. The former migrant farmer and steel worker never formally trained as an artist, yet art critics call him genius. 2006, 20 minutes, produced and directed by Celia Carey.

Made possible by the Lowell Institute