A love letter to Black femmes: Artist Ayana Evans debuts new collaboration with U-M students, faculty
Themes of Black feminism and perseverance will take center stage in a new improvisational performance that will premiere as part of the University of Michigan’s winter 2021 Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series season kick-off event on Jan. 22. The work was produced and directed from more than 600 miles away by New York-based performance artist Ayana Evans, who collaborated with U-M Stamps School of Art & Design professor Rebekah Modrak and students in her “Dressing Up and Down” course during the fall 2020 semester. Evans, a Roman J. Witt Visiting Artist at Stamps, is known for her gueril...