Celebrate beloved Black poet of the nineteenth-century, Frances E. W. Harper, as she turns 200! Downtown's newest gallery dedicated to uplifting Black Artists hosts this live reading by artists & friends, broadcasting her words from her century to ours. The reading coincides with the last week of the Ancestral Threads Exhibition, a three woman show (Arianna Barley, Wabwila Mugala, Semoria Mosley) featuring multi-media works informed by African Diaspora culture, identity, mysticism and colonization repercussions.

This event is a collaboration with the Blue Lotus Arts Collective,  #Harper 200 Nationwide Read-a-thon, part of the Harper200 initiatives sponsored by the Center for Black Digital Research / #DigBlk; Department of Public and Applied Humanities

In collaboration with Arizona Arts Live, BLAC will be hosting a moderated conversation to discuss Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Black Box: Writing the Race.

Space is limited. Please register using this link to attend.

Please reach out to 520-400-4701 or info@bluelotusartistscollective.org with any questions.

Please join us for a conversation with Artist Willie Bonner and Historian Tani Sanchez to discuss the historical references depicted in the current show at BLAC, Pre-Existing Condition.