Emory Libraries, Carlos Museum honor King Week and Black History Month
While Emory University has a full calendar of offerings for the upcoming King Week, Emory Libraries and the Carlos Museum will recognize King Week and Black History Month in February with events, exhibits and resources of their own, including iconic civil rights era photographs at the Carlos (above), recommended books and films on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a Frederick Douglass Day transcribing event on Feb. 14, and more.
'This Land Calls Us Home' exhibition to spotlight Indigenous art at opening event Jan. 27
Members of the public and the Emory community are invited to experience the new exhibition in the Schatten Gallery called “This Land Calls Us Home: Indigenous Relationships with Southeastern Homelands,” at the opening event on Monday, Jan. 27, at 7 p.m. Both the event and the exhibition are open to the public at no charge.
The exhibition, featuring the beautiful and unique work of 25 contemporary Indigenous artists, debuted at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport last year. The Emory version will include two timeline walls, one tracing the history of Southeastern Indigenous peoples displaced by European settlers, the other chronicling Emory’s growth from its founding 15 years later to its ongoing efforts to address that painful legacy.
Image credit: "Mvskoke Church Women," 2019, by Johnnie Lee Diacon (Muscogee Creek). Oil on stretched linen.
Can’t wait for our 12th Night Revelwith Kevin Young on March 21 or his public reading on March 22? Get your poetry fix on Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. when the Carlos Museum brings three prestigious Atlanta poets – Victoria Chang, E. Hughes, and Lauren K. Watel (pictured left to right above) – for an evening of dynamic readings from their award-winning original poetry.
In addition to being decorated published poets, all three have local connections. Chang is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and director of Poetry@Tech; Hughes is a PhD student in philosophy at Emory; and Watel earned her PhD in women’s studies from Emory and lives in Decatur, Georgia.
This program is open to the public at no charge, but registration is requested. The event is presented by The Art Section, Emory Libraries, and the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University.
