Regarded as French director Jean Renoir’s “Hollywood masterpiece,” this film stars Zachary Scott and Betty Field and portrays the hardships of a poor family struggling to establish a cotton farm in Texas in the early 1940s. FREE.
In conjunction with Paine College’s Evelyn G. Etheridge Conference on the Harlem Renaissance, the Morris presents an evening with Danté Stewart, speaker, theologian, writer, and author of Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle. Stewart’s work has appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other publications. FREE.
Hear exciting selections played by one of the region’s best-known hammer dulcimer players, Matthew Dickerson. FREE. Funded by the Cleon W. Mauldin Foundation.
Join artist Philip Juras for a gallery talk as he discusses works in The Long View exhibition and the role of the environment. Afterwards, enjoy pastries and Buona Caffe coffee. Members, FREE; nonmembers, $5. RSVP: call 706-828-3825 / email mccall.chambers@themorris.org
Hear a lecture by Michi Meko, an Atlanta-based artist whose work focuses on the African American experience of navigating public spaces while remaining buoyant within them. Lecture begins at 6:00 p.m. and is followed by a reception. FREE.
