Jacob Lawrence and the Harlem Renaissance

Date:
2/20/2019 at 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Event Description

In conjunction with the exhibition, Jacob Lawrence: Three Print Series on view in the Karshan Center of Graphic Art and in honor of Black History Month, join MOAS Chief Curator/Gary R. Libby Curator of Art, Ruth Grim in the Root Family Auditorium for a lecture on Jacob Lawrence and the Harlem Renaissance. The period roughly 1918 through the Depression years saw a flowering of arts and culture in Harlem on the island of Manhattan. African Americans had fled repression in the South and made a new home in this area with writers such as Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, and Zora Neale Hurston coming to prominence as well as performances and musicians, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Duke Ellington, and visual artists, Aaron Douglas, Archibald Motely, and Jacob Lawrence. This lecture will reveal the heyday of the period that brought us the Cotton Club, The Apollo Theater, and other mainstays of early 20th-century performance in New York City.

Admission: Free for members or with paid museum admission.

Location:
Museum of Arts & Sciences - Root Family Auditorium
352 S. Nova Road
Daytona Beach FL 32114
Phone:
2024 Exhibit Sponsors
Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and the National Endowment for the Arts.