Arts & Letters Live Presents Imani Perry
Schedule
Sun Feb 02 2025 at 04:00 pm to 05:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
1717 N Harwood St, Dallas, TX, United States, Texas 75201 | Dallas, TX
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Presented in partnership with the DMA's Black History & Culture CelebrationPromotional Partner: The Dock Bookshop
Imani Perry, the National Book Award–winning author of South to America, presents Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, a poignant, beautiful meditation on how throughout history Blackness has been intertwined with the color blue. Blue skies and blue water offer hope, but blue is also the color of deep melancholy and heartache that echoes Louis Armstrong’s question, “What did I do to be so Black and blue?” In this book, Perry draws deeply from her own life as well as from art and history, using the world’s favorite color as a springboard for a riveting emotional, cultural, and spiritual journey—an examination of race and Blackness that transcends politics or ideology.
Imani Perry is a 2023 MacArthur Fellow and the Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Perry's books include Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, winner of the 2019 Bograd-Weld Biography Prize from the Pen America Foundation, and Breathe: A Letter to My Sons, among others.
Johnica Rivers is a peripatetic curator and writer rooted in Texas who lives and works between New York and North Carolina. She is Curator-at-Large of North Carolina Historic Sites, where she curates site-responsive installations, proposes commissions and acquisitions, and advises on special projects. Her recent exhibition projects include A Sojourn for Harriet Jacobs and Letitia Huckaby: Memorable Proof. She is the co-editor, alongside Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Michelle Lanier, of the Sojourning volume of Southern Cultures, published by UNC Press for the Center for the Study of the American South.
TICKET PRICES*: Public $15, DMA Member/Educator $10, Student $5
* Celebration weekend ticket prices
2:00 PM Enjoy a guided tour of works in the DMA’s collection that illustrate the themes in Perry's book. Space is limited; advance registration is strongly recommended, and a tour ticket and an event ticket are required to participate. Registration for the tour is available on Etix.
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