Kathy A. Perkins Emeritus Faculty — Lighting Design/MA and Ph.D. Faculty University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) 1978 Theatre – Lighting Design [MFA] Howard University (Washington, D.C.) 1976 Drama {BFA] USAA 829 Specialties: Africa/African Diaspora Theatre, Women of Color, Lighting Design PROFESSIONAL LIGHTING DESIGN (Representative Listing) St. Louis Black Repertory Company – Artistic Director: Ron …
MARTIN ESPADA was born in 1957 and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Frank Espada, is a political activist and an immigrant from Puerto Rico. Influenced by his activist father, photographer Frank Espada, and his own struggles with poverty, Martín Espada uses his poetry to speak for the downtrodden and the forgotten. Martin worked …
~Frank Espada~ Documentary Photographer and Civil Rights Activist “We need to raise some holy hell,” he wrote to us. “For we have landed at the bottom and have stayed there.” ________________________________________________ “I Will Follow You Silent” I will follow you forever, quiet and fugitive among dark streets ground by nostalgia, or over stars smiling with …
“What color is a friend when you need one?” Arthur Theodore Wilson is a Published Poet; Playwright; Teacher; and Co-Editor/Publisher of over thirty years of Attitude Magazine. Mr. Wilson was born in Newark, New Jersey at the end of World War II. His early fascination and interest in theater, poetry, gospel music, and the …
“I was just doing the Lord’s work,” he said in one interview. “I didn’t know I was no artist until them folks come and told me I was.” William Edmonson became the first African American artist whose work received a one-man show exhibit at MOMA. He …
