As part of Paine College’s Evelyn G. Etheridge Conference on the Harlem Renaissance, the Morris Museum and Paine College present the screening of Oscar Micheaux: The Czar of Black Hollywood, a film by Bayer Mack. Micheaux, America’s preeminent black filmmaker for three decades, directed or produced twenty-two silent movies and fifteen talking pictures. FREE.
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Paine College’s Evelyn G. Etheridge Conference on the Harlem Renaissance, the Morris Museum and Paine College present Dr. Shawnya L. Harris, the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art at the Georgia Museum of Art, who will speak on some of the leading women artists of…
A married duo from opposite sides of the Atlantic plays original music inspired by both Celtic and bluegrass traditions. FREE. Funded by the Cleon W. Mauldin Foundation.
This drama, directed by famed documentarian Robert J. Flaherty, was commissioned by the Standard Oil Company to promote its drilling ventures in the Louisiana bayous. Virgil Thomson’s score won the Pulitzer Prize, the only one ever awarded a film score. FREE.
Hear accomplished soprano Tina Milhorn Stallard perform a wide range of material, from Stephen Foster to opera to contemporary songs. FREE. Funded by the Cleon W. Mauldin Foundation.
