{"id":11820,"date":"2020-02-05T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=11820"},"modified":"2020-02-10T10:06:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T18:06:22","slug":"black-history-month-2020-augustwilson-radcliffebaily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/black-history-month-2020-augustwilson-radcliffebaily\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month featuring Storyteller August Wilson and Portrait Artist Radcliffe Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>During the month of February, in celebration of Black History Month, Collins Library will be featuring posts on some of the men celebrated in the traveling exhibition \u201cMen of Change:\u00a0 Power. Triumph. Truth.<\/a>\u201d currently on display at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma. Men of Change <\/em>opened December 21, 2019 and will close March 15, 2020. The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service developed the exhibit and maintains a website<\/a> with additional information on the highlighted men.<\/p>\n

The Men of Change are arranged by seven themes:\u00a0 Storytellers, Myth-Breakers, Fathering, Community, Imagining, Catalysts, and Loving. Artists were invited to interpret each of the men in portraits that are as diverse as the African-Americans they represent.<\/p>\n

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Photograph of August Wilson by Adger Cowens. Lost and Found<\/em> [August Wilson], 2013. Radcliffe Bailey. \u00a9 Radcliffe Bailey. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.<\/p><\/div>\n

Storyteller:\u00a0 August Wilson
\n<\/strong>August Wilson was born April 27, 1945 in Pittsburgh, PA and died October 2, 2005 in Seattle, WA. A celebrated playwright, he dramatized the African American experience via his ten-play cycle. Each of the works in the cycle take place in a different decade; the earliest, Joe Turner\u2019s Come and Gone<\/em> is set in 1911 and the most recent, Radio Golf<\/em>, the year is 1997. His plays have been both critical and box office successes, garnering Tony Awards and Drama Desk Awards. Fences<\/em> and The Piano Lesson<\/em> were awarded Pulitzer Prizes for Drama; and Wilson is the only playwright to have won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best American play seven times. On\u00a0October 2005, shortly after Wilson’s death, the Virginia Theatre was renamed the August Wilson Theatre, becoming the only Broadway theater to bear the name of an African American.<\/p>\n

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Photograph (left) by Jackie Cotton, 2015.<\/p><\/div>\n

August Wilson Plays
\n<\/strong>Plays not owned by Collins Library can be borrowed from libraries in Summit.<\/p>\n