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Arts & Letters Live: Samella Lewis and Madison Smartt Bell
Date: March 4, 2010
Website: www.dallasmuseumofart.org
Location: Dallas Museum of Art
Address:
1717 North Harwood
Dallas TX 75201
7:30 PM
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In celebration of the exhibition Jacob Lawrence: The Life of Toussaint L’ouverture.
Samella Lewis is a groundbreaking artist, art historian, curator and educator. Her seminal book African American Art and Artists reveals the rich legacy of African American artists from the colonial era to the present. She will share memories of her friend and fellow artist Jacob Lawrence.
Madison Smartt Bell is the author of Toussaint Louverture: A Biography, the first biography of the fascinating leader of the Haitian Revolution to appear in English in more than fifty years. Bell has also written the Haitian Revolution trilogy. All Souls Rising, the first novel in the trilogy, was a finalist for the National Book Award.