Kingsport's Renaissance Center
1200 E. Center Street
Noon - 6 PM
Artists will be conducting workshops in music, drumming, dance, storytelling and graphic arts. In addition, there will be African cuisine sampling, and headwrap designs workshops.
Artists-in-residence will include:
Quian Hale - Nashville Graphics Designer: Graphic and Computer Arts
Carlton "Starr" Releford - Actor/Singer with Knoxville's Carpetbag Theater-Acting
Megan Adair - Swing Dance Instructor" Knoxville Community Arts School
Richard Hicks, Jr - Drumming
Gerie Hicks - African Cuisine
Lavonda Price - Local Hairstylist
Kate Augman - Storyteller: "The Fiber of Freedom-Use of Quilts on the Underground Railroad"
Lydia Wilson - Mixed Media Textile Artist in Johnson City: Visual Arts
Exhibits on Display:
*A quilt that students made at last year's workshop
*Douglass High School Alumni
*Displays of prominent American Black Artists provided by members of the Arts Council
NO CHARGE TO ATTEND
SUGGESTED FOR ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN
