The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies announces online symposium
R. Sikoryak, Cover illustration for Constitution Illustrated published by Drawn % Quarterly, 2020.
STOCKBRIDGE, MASS
.-The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, the scholarly arm of Norman Rockwell Museum, announced a slate of speakers and topics for its annual symposium, Picturing Freedom: A Century of Illustration. For the second year in a row this event will happen virtually on Zoom over two days Friday, January 15 and Saturday, January 16. This timely symposium will explore historical and contemporary notions of freedom as well as the role of illustration as a force in shaping public perception. How has published imagery affected decision-making, public policy, and cultural understanding? Prominent authors, illustrators, and scholars will offer perspectives. The symposium is organized by The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, and co-presented with the D.B. Dowd Modern Graphic Histo
Cambridge Public Library to host Martin Luther King Day event
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Kiese Laymon, author of the award-winning memoir “Heavy: An American Memoir,” will be in conversation with Jesse McCarthy, an assistant professor at Harvard University, at the Cambridge Public Library’s 46th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at 7 p.m. on Jan. 14.
Laymon will speak as part of the library’s Our Path Forward series, which examines issues that “are important to the health of our democracy.” The program is co-sponsored by the mayor s office, city manager s office and the Cambridge Public Library Foundation.
Laymon’s “Heavy: An American Memoir” received the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the 2018 Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose and the Austen Riggs Erikson Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media. The memoir was named one of the “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years” by The New York Times and was named
Jericho Brown and Danez Smith in Conversation with Tracy K. Smith
Join 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith, as she discusses poetry, survival and our pandemic reality with renowned poets Jericho Brown and Danez Smith.
This highlighted Wintersession event will feature poetry readings by Jericho Brown, winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in poetry; and award-winning poet, performer, and current Princeton Arts Fellow Danez Smith. Professor Smith will moderate a conversation on art, America, and the feelings and determinations arising from this complicated moment. An interactive audience Q&A will conclude the evening.
Tracy K. Smith is Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts, and the author of four award-winning poetry collections, including Life on Mars, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. She served two terms as U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
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This republic is on a banana peel forreal.
How else to view frightened congresspersons crouched on the Senate floor in gas masks while Capitol Police drew weapons behind barricades to guard them. A sedition-minded dude dressed in a vest and hoodie, shoulder-flaunting a confederate flag down the hall. Insurgents clambering the walls outside the Capitol building like pseudo super villains who’ve come in contact with the stone that removes their powers.
How else to interpret Senator Josh Hawley greeting the mob with a raised fist. Arkansan Richard “Bigo” Barnett with his boots kicked up on Nancy Pelosi’s desk, snatching a piece of her mail for a keepsake, ho-humming out of the building, and highsighting on camera, “I wrote her a nasty note, put my feet up on her desk, and scratched my balls.”