This exhibition features contemporary artists Adam Chau, Ifé Franklin, Michelle Samour, Heather Evans Smith, and Andrea Pettway Williams, who incorporate blue in their work to highlight the symbolic and historic meanings of the color.
The Tony-nominated choreographer, known for co-directing Fire Shut Up In My Bones with the Metropolitan Opera (2021) and choreographing Alicia Keys’ musical Hell’s Kitchen (2023), explores Black joy in a new work with her own dance company.
Writers Vievee Francis and Matthew Olzmann are featured in this Working Writer Series event co-sponsored by the Creative Writing and Africana Studies programs.
Organist Dexter Kennedy is the winner of the Grand Prix d’Interprétation at the 24th Concours International d’Orgue de Chartres.
This lunchtime concert features the music of American icon and innovative jazz vocalist, pianist, and songwriter Nina Simone. Performers include vocalist Rhiannon Hurst (Brooks Fenwick Scholar), pianist Matthew Jaskot, and other music department students.
A commissioning and recording project from Grammy Award-winning violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman, This is America celebrates our country’s rich cultural imaginary, offering a vivid counterpoint to the idea that this land can be understood through any singular, dominant point of view.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is a New York Times-bestselling essayist and poet. Her environmentally attuned work explores how we live in a world she finds rich with wonder.
Renowned Jazz musician Mike Monaghan and his colleagues, Ben Cook, Marshall Wood, Marty Richards, John Wilkins will perform an exciting evening of jazz improvisation.
Fiction writer Allegra Hyde is featured in this Working Writer Series event sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.
Music celebrating life, earth, and heaven from geographically distant locations. Most of the selections on our program come to us from countries that are over 4000 miles away; locations that would take multiple legs of transportation, or are otherwise a challenge to access from Worcester, MA.
