Contemporary Talks focuses on artists’ projects, curatorial platforms, and contemporary theory and connects you with individuals who represent a diverse range of disciplines as they consider, examine, and question contemporary art.
Contemporary Talks
August 24, 2024 / 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Talk with Tayari Jones
Author of An American Marriage
Acclaimed novelist Tayari Jones will join Executive Director Floyd Hall to discuss some favorite Atlanta memories, how crafting work on a typewriter informs Jones’ artistic practice as a contemporary author, and witnessing artist Tim Youd reinterpret An American Marriage in a new form as a performative visual work.
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Tayari Jones
New York Times best-selling author Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage. Published in 2018, An American Marriage is an Oprah’s Book Club Selection and also appeared on Barack Obama’s summer reading list as well as his year-end roundup. The novel was awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize), Aspen Words Prize and an NAACP Image Award. It has been published in two dozen countries.
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March 14 / 11:00am
Contemporary Talks
Free
Curator Tour of Unbound Narratives, Embodied Language
with Karen Comer Lowe
This tour offers deeper insight into the exhibition’s curatorial framework and the conceptual threads connecting the exhibiting artists.
April 18 / 12:00pm
Special Event
Free
A Live Response to Unbound Narratives: Embodied Language Performance
Performed by Spelman College Department of Dance Performance and Choreography
Atlanta Contemporary presents a live performance by Spelman College dance students responding to Unbound Narratives: Embodied Language.
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