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Draw-A-Thon Educator Happy Hour: Back to School Edition

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”21295″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Are you an educator, school staff, or a teaching artist? Join us for a back-to-school happy hour at Antenna. Come relax, drink and doodle! Connect with other artists and educators and learn about opportunities provided by 24 HR Draw-A-Thon and our new in-school Draw-A-Thon program. All folks who work in arts or … Draw-A-Thon Educator Happy Hour: Back to School Edition

What’s Left

Second Saturday openings moved to THIRD Saturday. Stay safe! In a public school classroom with cinderblock walls and in-progress paintings covering every available surface, artist Tracey Bullington sat down with a group of her high school students who had each immigrated to the United States and asked “What is the most memorable object that you … What’s Left

An Evening With Josh Levin

Linda Taylor was one of the most infamous figures of the 20th century. She’s now a forgotten woman, having faded from public view four decades ago. But while the real Taylor vanished from our collective memory, her nickname, the “welfare queen” persisted. In THE QUEEN: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth, Slate national editor, … An Evening With Josh Levin

Author Talk with Claudia Gray

New York Times best-selling author Claudia Gray will talk about her books, writing, and Star Wars. There will be a chance to ask questions. Wednesday, June 19, at 5 p.m. at the Martin Luther King Library, 1611 Caffin Ave

Daniel Brook – THE ACCIDENT OF COLOR

Join us offsite at Antenna when we help launch author Daniel Brook‘s new book, THE ACCIDENT OF COLOR: A Story of Race in Reconstruction. A technicolor history of the first civil rights movement and its collapse into black and white. In THE ACCIDENT OF COLOR, Daniel Brook journeys to nineteenth-century New Orleans and Charleston and introduces us to cosmopolitan residents … Daniel Brook – THE ACCIDENT OF COLOR

Lovejoy Boteler: Crooked Snake: The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard

In 1968, during Albert Lepard’s fifth escape from a life sentence at Parchman Penitentiary, he kidnapped Lovejoy Boteler, then eighteen years old, from his family’s farm in Grenada, Mississippi. Three decades later, still beset by half-buried memories of that time, Boteler began researching his kidnapper’s nefarious, sordid life to discover how and why this terrifying … Lovejoy Boteler: Crooked Snake: The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard

Make Your Own Void Fill

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Second Saturday openings moved to THIRD Saturday. Stay safe![/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Julian Wellisz presents Make Your Own Void Fill: an exhibition of ready-made sculptural recreations of photographs from a supply catalog. “There are dozens of masterpieces in this catalogue, obscured amongst 36,000 lesser works. Viewed by the company not as art but as utility, helping to further … Make Your Own Void Fill

The Accident of Color

Tuesday, June 18th 7pm In The Accident of Color, Daniel Brook journeys to nineteenth-century New Orleans and Charleston and introduces us to cosmopolitan residents who elude the racial categories the rest of America takes for granted. Before the Civil War, these free, openly mixed-race urbanites enjoyed some rights of citizenship and the privileges of wealth … The Accident of Color