Harlem's Art World: Unearthing Raven Chanticleer's Haven
- 12 years ago
Harlem's Art World: Unearthing Raven Chanticleer's Haven
The Graduate Center, CUNY - Martin E. Segal Theatre
Culture-maker Raven Chanticleer, a fashion designer, dancer, sculptor, storyteller, and perhaps most famously the founder, craftsman and proprietor of the Harlem African-American Wax and History Museum, is one of the many black artists on this side of the Beat generation whose legacy has been obscured.Join Nikki Johnson, a photographer with the only remaining documentation of Chanticleer's work, along with scholar and artist C. Daniel Dawson, author Aoibheann Sweeney, filmmaker and artist Camille Billops and professor emeritus James Hatch, who together curate the Hatch-Billops collection, an extensive archive of 20th Century Black Culture, to discuss the case of Chanticleer and legacies of many other black artists. Moderated by David Henderson, poet, author and one of the founders of the Umbra Arts Movement.
The Graduate Center, CUNY - Martin E. Segal Theatre
Culture-maker Raven Chanticleer, a fashion designer, dancer, sculptor, storyteller, and perhaps most famously the founder, craftsman and proprietor of the Harlem African-American Wax and History Museum, is one of the many black artists on this side of the Beat generation whose legacy has been obscured.Join Nikki Johnson, a photographer with the only remaining documentation of Chanticleer's work, along with scholar and artist C. Daniel Dawson, author Aoibheann Sweeney, filmmaker and artist Camille Billops and professor emeritus James Hatch, who together curate the Hatch-Billops collection, an extensive archive of 20th Century Black Culture, to discuss the case of Chanticleer and legacies of many other black artists. Moderated by David Henderson, poet, author and one of the founders of the Umbra Arts Movement.