September 2021: Transformations (Fall Arts Preview)

The Conversation Dawn Turner discusses “Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood” "It’s often through stories about others—gods and monsters, parents and siblings, friends and lovers—that we better understand ourselves. In award-winning journalist and novelist Dawn Turner’s memoir, 'Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Unique American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood,' Turner locates herself by way of a triumvirate sisterhood and the historic and culturally rich neighborhood where they came of age. 'Three Girls from Bronzeville' is a gorgeously moving memoir, at once universal and spectacularly singular—about racism and inequity, friends and family, heartache and second chances." (Amy Danzer)   Resisting Marginalization Jeffrey Gibson reconsiders the cultural representation of indigenous people "'Sweet Bitter Love' at the Newberry Library is an exhibition of new mixed media work by Jeffrey Gibson, whose core theme is how Native Americans have been brought int