Arts, Media, and Design at AIC: Theatrical Performance of August Wilson's "Fences" and The Freedom Dreams Art Show

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Theatrical Performance of August Wilson's "Fences" and The Freedom Dreams Art Show

Art show opening reception Wednesday 11/30/22 from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. Location: West Wing Gallery of the Karen Sprague Cultural Arts Center, 1000 State Street, Springfield, MA Refreshments will be served. You are invited to join us!

Theater @ AIC Presents: August Wilson's Fences. Friday 12/2/22 @ 7:30 pm, Saturday 12/3/22 @ 7:30 pm and Sunday 12/4/22 @ 2:30 pm. Admission is free and donations are appreciated. Location: Esther B, Griswold Theatre, 1000 State Street, Springfield, MA Fences explores the evolving African American experience, race relations and an emotionally damaged lead character who struggles with his past while trying to provide for his family.

At the art show reception, visitors will be able to engage in the "Imagine more than dots" project, by creating artworks and posting right on the gallery walls. Professor John Nordell explains the project in an article he wrote for the Massachusetts Art Education Association News. Click here and then scroll down to page 9.

Bianca Figueroa-Santana, Assistant Director for Diversity Education, represented AIC on a panel discussion with her counterparts from Mt. Holyoke College and Springfield College. Moderated by Traci Talbert, President of the African American Female Professor Award Association, the theme of the panel was Polices, Systems, Linguistic Bias in Higher Education. Panelist Kijua Sanders-McMurty mentioned the concept of "Freedom Dreams". We researched the topic and discovered a book by Robin D. G. Kelley: Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Students were thus inspired to create artworks portraying their own Freedom Dreams.