Architectonic Identity & A Raisin in the Sun
August 20, 2024 - September 15, 2024
Art Ventures presents Kamaal Manboard's Architectonic Identity series in alignment with TheatreSquared's 19th Season opener, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry.
Lorraine Hansberry's brilliant play, A Raisin in the Sun is as salient today as sixty-five years ago when it won the 1959 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play of the Year. Directed by Dexter J. Singleton, A Raisin in the Sun vividly portrays systemic generational trauma and the resilience required to renew hope. TheatreSquared's prescience to bring this masterpiece to the Northwest Arkansas region could not be more opportune.
Art Ventures is refocusing on its mission to support artists by collaborating with the community (for the sake of the artists and the region), to encourage education and public engagement in the arts, and to be accessible to under-represented communities.
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NWAJuneteenth
#NWAJuneteenth 2021 Exhibition
#NWAJuneteenth is a virtual gallery of video exhibitions by local and regional Black artists who continue to work for freedom in America. Several of them have answered the question, “what does Juneteenth mean to me?” It is great to hear what they know, and we can find familiarity in their experiences. Their answers are much like that of other American Black families.
Importantly, the artwork attests to the role of artists in building strength in community and culture.