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The Untold Story of Vera B. Williams – A Conversation with Mark Davenport
January 27 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
FreeArt, Community, and Social Activism: The Untold Story of Vera B. Williams
A Conversation with Mark Davenport
Saturday, January 27th, 2024 at 11 AM
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center {120 College Street}
Free and Open to All
In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition Vera B. Williams / STORIES (January 26 – May 11, 2024), musicologist and sociocultural historian Mark Davenport will draw on his forthcoming book (Community, Art, Education, and the Search for Meaning: From Black Mountain College to the Gate Hill Cooperative) to shed light on Williams’s life as an artist, community builder and social activist. Davenport’s intimate talk (his mother Patsy Lynch and Vera Baker were college roommates at BMC) will complement several special items in the exhibition and offer an exclusive opportunity to view archival photographs curated from his extensive digital image collection.
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