This program has been canceled. We apologize for the inconvenience.
In celebration of the exhibition Cauleen Smith: Human_3.0 Reading List, please join artists Cauleen Smith and Rashayla Marie Brown for a soulful brunch and dynamic exchange of ideas around life, literature, and artistic expression.
Selected essays for brunch discussion:
Greg Tate: “Nobody Loves a Genius Child: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Flyboy in the Buttermilk,” in Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America
Claudia Rankine: “Section II,” in Citizen: An American Lyric
Angela Davis: “Up in Harlem Every Saturday Night: Blues and the Black Aesthetic,” in Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday