Represent: Writing Inspired by Black Art
- Special Event
Friday, May 20, 2022, 8:00 p.m.
Suzanne and Paul Westlake Performing Arts Center
Shadows of Liberty, 2016. Titus Kaphar (American, b. 1976). Oil and rusted nails on canvas; 274.3 x 213.4 cm. Yale University Art Gallery, Purchased with a gift from Ellen and Stephen Susman, BA 1962, 2017.67.1. © Titus Kaphar
About The Event
Spend your evening at the CMA with Literary Cleveland, as we provide space for writers to share work that reflects on Black art and its expansive possibilities.
Enjoy readings inspired by the key themes of and the works in Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus, which puts art from the CMA’s permanent collection in conversation with a vanguard of emerging and midcareer Black artists who explore the fundaments of art making, embracing and challenging art history.
Esperanza Cintrón, Sometimes
Madeleine Elaban, WHAT . . . ARE . . . YOU . . . ?
Siaara Freeman, Self Portrait as a Wood Nymph
Sylvia Jones, Man with Shotgun and Alien
Amber Lisa, We Belong to We
Ray McNiece, American History, Fake News Edition
Judith Miles, Mississippi Memories 2022
Kortney Morrow, Cumulo
Elana Pitts, Stay Strong
Kathy Price, nkisi nkondi
Zuggie Tate, For the Women Who Get Spoken For . . .
John White, Food for Thought
Kadijah Wingo, Conscious Streams
All education programs at the Cleveland Museum of Art are underwritten by the CMA Fund for Education. Principal support is provided by Dieter and Susan M. Kaesgen. Major annual support is provided by Brenda and Marshall Brown, David and Robin Gunning, Eva and Rudolf Linnebach, Gail C. and Elliott L. Schlang, Shurtape Technologies, and the Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation. Generous annual support is provided by an anonymous donor, Gini and Randy Barbato, the M. E. and F. J. Callahan Foundation, Dr. William A. Chilcote Jr. and Dr. Barbara S. Kaplan, Char and Chuck Fowler, the Giant Eagle Foundation, Robin Heiser, the late Marta and the late Donald M. Jack Jr., Bill and Joyce Litzler, the Logsdon Family Fund for Education, Sarah Nash, William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill, William Roj and Mary Lynn Durham, Betty T. and David M. Schneider, the Sally and Larry Sears Fund for Education Endowment, Roy Smith, Paula and Eugene Stevens, the Trilling Family Foundation, and the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art.