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April 2024
Lalla Essaydi
Visual artist Lalla A. Essaydi grew up in Morocco and now lives between there and the United States. In her art, she often combines Islamic calligraphy with representations of the female body to address the complex reality of Arab female identity from the unique perspective of personal experience. Much of her work returns to her Moroccan girlhood, looking back on it as an adult woman caught somewhere between past and present, and as an artist, exploring the language in which…
Find out more »Garth Fagan Dance Company
Garth Fagan Dance is rooted in African traditions, Caribbean stories, and the Black dance vocabulary Fagan Technique™. Garth Fagan Dance is founded by the man who taught more than a 100 million audience members to move as one global community through Disney’s The Lion King on Broadway! Over decades, Garth used Fagan Technique to build a platform of social justice, creative leadership, and innovation to build community engagement and unique partnerships that reach audiences. Celebrating 52 years in 2022, the…
Find out more »Tim Warfield
Tim Warfield, saxophone with UNCG Jazz Ensemble I Tim Warfield, Jr., a native of York, Pennsylvania, began studying the alto saxophone at age nine. He switched to tenor saxophone during his first year at William Penn Sr. High School where he participated in various musical ensembles and won many jazz soloist awards, including second out of forty competitors at the Montréal Festival of Music. After high school, Warfield attended Howard University in Washington, DC for two years before leaving to…
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