Fisk University 95th Spring Arts Festival

FISK UNIVERSITY’S 95th ANNUAL

ARTIST: BRADLEY WATTS

APRIL 1-7, 2024

SPRING ARTS FESTIVAL

Inseparable: Visual and Performing Arts and Fisk Part of the Intellectual Fabric of the Institution

The Fisk University Department of Art is delighted to participate in the University’s Annual Spring Arts Festival which celebrates the arts and the humanities. In 2024, as in previous years, we continue our tradition of showcasing the creative efforts of our students, and of those who have taught and trained them. Student artists are selected from the Painting, Ceramic, Sculpture, and Photography Studios. In classes, they are taught and given constructive criticism, and each student has the opportunity to present work, created from their interests, imaginations, and experiences.

The department was founded by Aaron Douglas, known as “the father of black American art.” He was the department chairman for 22 years and chairman Emeritus from 1966 until his death in 1979. An illustrious list of faculty and alumni have followed and left a remarkable impression. For over seventy-five years, the department has continued to produce exceptional graduates dedicated to the study of the arts and visual culture. Fisk’s museum collections have consistently been an integral teaching resource for students, artists, and scholars as well as the national and global community.

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GREETING Contents 12 PRESIDENT’S HISTORICAL OVERVIEW 3 SCHEDULE 4 STUDENT ART 10 TARGET’S HBCU ART CHALLENGE WINNER 11 GO! POETRY 12 MUSIC DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW 14 THEATRE 17 SOCIAL JUSTICE 20 RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 21 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Dr. Agenia Walker Clark 18th President

Greetings Fiskites and Friends of Fisk, I am elated to welcome you to our 95th Annual Spring Arts Festival where this year’s theme is “Inseparable: Visual and Performing Arts and Fisk–Part of the Intellectual Fabric of the Institution.” I invite you to experience this year’s activities April 1-7, 2024. Visual, Performing, and Literary arts will be in abundance during this year’s festivities as we pay tribute to the legacy of Aaron Douglas, a key contributor to the Harlem Renaissance and who founded our Visual Arts Department 80 years ago. His murals grace the hallowed walls of Cravath Hall’s second floor rotunda, the board room, and the Office of Enrollment Management. His legacy continues through his former prized student, Professor LiFran Fort, who teaches and mentors the current generation of Fisk visual artists, one of which was chosen as the winner of Target’s 2023 HBCU Art Challenge.

In years past, we have hosted such luminaries as Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Judith Jamison, Sheryl Lee Ralph, and our very own Nikki Giovanni, just to name a few. We invite you to experience the creativity of our future playwrights, directors, actors, screenwriters and film makers, poets, musicians, singers, visual artists, and social justice activists. Our scholar/artists will showcase their unique talents by performing in concerts, recitals, plays, spoken-word events, films, panel discussions, and a student curated art show. How exciting!

Fisk continues the tradition of excellence in academia and art. Come and experience the arts at Fisk where art is interwoven into the intellectual fabric of Nashville’s oldest university. We look forward to welcoming you to our campus.

Fisk Forever!

Dr. Agenia Walker Clark

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HISTORICAL OVERVIEW The Annual Spring Arts Festival is an established

In conjunction with the seminars, concerts, film

tradition at Fisk University. In 1929, the first Festival

showings and play productions, there have been several

was held under the auspices of the Fisk Music School

noteworthy art exhibits. Items from the Metropolitan

with Ray Francis Brown as director. Invitations were

Museum of Art, paintings by Aaron Douglas and other

sent to Nashville patrons of music and to friends of

members of the Fisk faculty, portraits by Carl Van

Fisk all over the country requesting their presence at

Vechten and works by Elizabeth Catlett have been

the three-day celebration known then as “The Festival

displayed at the Library, Livingston Hall and in later

of Negro Music and Fine Arts.”

years, the Carl Van Vechten Art Gallery.

This cultural event opened with a concert of Jubilee

There were several historic events connected with

Music, which featured the Fisk Jubilee Singers®, under

the University, which occurred during the Festivals.

the direction of Mrs. James A. Myers, and the Men’s

In 1930, there was the laying of the cornerstone for

Glee Club and Mozart Society (Choir) both directed by

the Erastus Milo Cravath Library. In 1959, there was

John W. Work. The second day featured a program of

the dedication of the Adam K. Spence Student Union

folk songs, dances and gymnastics by the Department

Building, the W.E.B. DuBois Hall and Park-Johnson

of Physical Education for Women, a talk by James

Hall. Events such as the crowning of the Festival King

Weldon Johnson, a student recital, an art exhibit and

and Queen, the Beaux Art Ball and dance recitals were

a fashion show with the theme “Sugar and Spice – Fisk

some of the most popular activities for Fisk students.

Fashions for 1929.” Festivities for the third day began

Several awards have been presented to individuals

with regular Sunday morning church service. The

for their outstanding achievements. In1932, Roland

afternoon activities consisted of a concert of sixteenth

Hayes received the Doctor of Music degree and Marian

century church music, music by Russian composers,

Anderson, Dorothy Maynor, Pauli Marshall and Undine

Bach, and others. The festival closed with a tea in the

Smith Moore are among those who have received the

parlor of Jubilee Hall honoring Maggie Porter Cole,

Humanitarian Award.

one of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers®, Mabel Lewis

No account of the history of the Annual Spring

Imes, a former Jubilee Singer and Mary Fisk Park,

Arts Festival would be complete without mentioning

daughter of Clinton B. Fisk. The Board of Trustees,

our own talented “in house” artists. The Fisk

who met during the Festival, was present at the tea.

Jubilee Singers® and the University Choir have been

As a result of the success of the first Festival, it

integral parts of the Festival since its inception. The

was decided that the event should become an annual

Stagecrafters, founded in 1926, joined the festivities

affair. Over the years, guest participants have included

in the early thirties and Orchesis made its first

such luminaries as Countee Cullen and Robert Hayden

appearance in 1954. The Modern Black Mass Choir

who shared their poetry, Arthur Spingarn, Martin

and the Jazz Ensemble became part of the Festival in

Luther King, Jr., Pearl Buck, Ralph Ellison, Langston

1972.

Hughes, Margaret Walker, Carl Rowan, Ossie Davis,

During recent years, the Festival has attracted

Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier and J. Mason Brewer

well-known participants like Shirley Chisholm, Nikki

who have been among the convocation and seminar

Giovanni, Hubert Laws, and the Boy’s Choir of Harlem.

speakers, musicians who have ranged from Roland

From all indications, it is evident that Fisk University

Hayes, Philippa Duke Schuyler and the Nashville

stands in the forefront as a medium for cultural

Symphony Orchestra to Miriam Mekeba, Quincy Jones

expression while she continues to subscribe to her

and Cannonball Adderly, and dancers representing

legacy of excellence in the arts.

the Pearl Primus, Jose Limon and Jean Leon Destine

Special Collections Librarian

Dance Troupes.

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FISK UNIVERSITY’S 95th ANNUAL

SPRING ARTS FESTIVAL APRIL 1–7, 2024

Inseparable: Visual, and Performing Arts, and Fisk Part of the Intellectual Fabric of the Institution

MONDAY, APRIL 1

6:00 pm—GO! Poetry, On The Lawn

TUESDAY, APRIL 2

12:00 pm—Fisk Jazz Ensemble, On the Yard 7:00 pm—Fisk Music Department Showcase Fisk Memorial Chapel

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3

10:00 am—Parallels of Art and Science Dr. Kent Wallace Library, 3rd Floor John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library 12:00 pm—Culinary Arts, Spence Hall with Chef Julian Garrett, Multipurpose Room 3:00 pm—Student Film Fest, 3rd Floor, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library

THURSDAY, APRIL 4

4:00–6:00 pm—Student Art Show Lower Level, Carl Van Vechten Gallery 6:00 pm—Stagecrafters Student Playwrights One-Act Play Fest Little Theatre—Admission: $5.00

FRIDAY, APRIL 5

5:00–6:00 pm—”Colonialism and the Archives: Looking at Reparations” Panel Discussion John Lewis Center for Social Justice (Corner of 16th Avenue North and Phillips Street) 6:00 pm—Stagecrafters Student Playwrights One-Act Play Fest Little Theatre—Admission: $5.00 8:00 pm—Senior Recital, Khalil McCarthy Appleton Room, Jubilee Hall

SATURDAY, April 6

6:00 pm—Stagecrafters Student Playwrights One-Act Play Fest Little Theatre­—Admission: $5.00 8:00 pm—Senior Recital, Zoe Frazier Appleton Room, Jubilee Hall

SUNDAY, April 7

3:00 pm—Fisk University Choir Spring Concert Fisk Memorial Chapel

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Ashim Chand Freshman Computer Science Nepal

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Sydney Nelson Freshman Art Nashville, TN

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Sydney Nelson, Freshman, Art, Nashville, TN

Kendall Vaughn Rimbert Sophomore Art Louisville, KY

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Target’s HBCU Art Challenge Winner: Sopuruchi Ndubuisi Fisk University is proud to spotlight the remarkable achievements of Sopuruchi Ndubuisi, an exceptionally talented Art major with a concentration in Design, originally from Lagos, Nigeria. Sopuruchi’s unique design, “To Be Black Is,” has not only captured the essence of black excellence but has also earned a prestigious feature in Target’s nationwide Black History Month design contest.

The Target HBCU Design Challenge allowed Sopuruchi to align personal creative pursuits with a broader platform, showcasing the rich tapestry of black culture and identity on a national scale.

Reflecting on the nurturing environment at Fisk University, Sopuruchi credited the institution for playing a pivotal role in personal and creative development. “At Fisk, I learned about unfiltered African American History, which inspired me to explore my role in crafting change through art,” Sopuruchi remarked.

The support from faculty members and the vibrant community at Fisk has been a cornerstone of Sopuruchi’s journey. “My professors and mentors, like Professor Henry and Charly Palmer, have championed my dreams and fostered connections that have been invaluable to my growth as a designer,” Sopuruchi added, highlighting the collaborative and supportive culture that thrives within the university.

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Sopuruchi’s journey from Lagos to Nashville and onto a national platform is a testament to the power of education, creativity, and the enduring spirit of excellence that Fisk University embodies.

You may read the full article at https://www.fisk.edu/universitynews-and-publications/from-lagos-to-the-national-spotlightsopuruchis-trailblazing-journey-in-art-and-design/

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POETRY

Go! Poetry was founded in August 2014 with the mission to cultivate a space where students can explore, create, and share their poetic voices. Comprised of students from diverse backgrounds and academic disciplines, the group provides a platform for individuals to engage with the written and spoken word in all its forms.

The group’s activities center around its regular poetry slams and open mic nights, where members and guests are invited to step up and share their thoughts, stories, and emotions through poetry. These events not only showcase the talent and creativity of Fisk University students but also serve as catalysts for meaningful dialogue and connection within the community.

Go! Poetry also hosts workshops and writing sessions,providing members with the opportunity to hone their craft, receive feedback, and collaborate with fellow poets. Whether it’s experimenting with different poetic forms, exploring themes of social justice and identity, or simply finding inspiration in everyday experiences, the group encourages self-expression and exploration without boundaries.

Go! Poetry is more than just a student organization—it’s a testament to the power of words to inspire, empower, and unite.

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Fisk Music Department Ensembles Showcase Concert Tuesday, April 2, 2024, 7 p.m.

Fisk Memorial Chapel Fisk University Band Dr. James Pratt, conductor

Resilience Crazy/Do You Remember the Times

Among the Clouds

Pinkzebra Ceelo Green and Michael Jackson arranged for Fisk University Music City Sound by Stephan Naylor Brian Balmages

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Fisk Jazz Ensemble Dr. Gary Powell Nash, conductor

Mercy, Mercy, Mercy

Cannonball Adderley

The Look of Love

Burt Bacharach/Sergio Mendez featuring Imani Suitt, mezzo-soprano

Black Gold

Esperanza Spalding featuring Imani Suitt, mezzo-soprano

My Little Suede Shoes

Charlie Parker

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I Open My Mouth To The Lord

arr. Anthony Brown

Bless Me

Donald Lawerence

Everything Must Change

Bernard Ignher

God Restores

Dynamic Praise

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Fisk University Choir's Spring Arts Concert Sunday, April 7, 2024, 3:00 pm Fisk Memorial Chapel

Director, Dr. Christopher A. Duke Assistant Director, Andrew M. Davis

We’ve Come to Have Church Keep Your Lamps I Really Love the Lord

If God Said It God Be Praised I Shall Wear a Crown Thomas

Everything Must Change

GMWA (1986) Andre Thomas (b.1952) Charles Nicks (1941-1988) Lalia Cooper, Alto Traditional Bishop T.D. Jakes (b.1957) Thomas Whitfield (1954-1992) Kristen Jones, Soprano Benard Ighner (1945-2017) Grace E. Smith, Alto Jordan Kelley, Tenor Saxophone Raymond Newsom, Piano

Bless Me (Prayer of Jabez)

Donald Lawerence (b.1961)

Total Praise

Richard Smallwood (b.1948)

The Lord Bless and Keep You I Have No Doubt

Peter C. Lutkin (1858-1931) Louis Area Fellowship (2013)

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The roots of Fisk University’s music program trace back to its earliest days. In 1871, George L. White, a talented musician and educator, formed the Fisk Jubilee Singers.

This groundbreaking ensemble embarked on tours across the United States and Europe, captivating audiences with their renditions of spirituals and gospel music. Their performances not only raised funds for the university but also drew attention to the richness of African American musical traditions.

Through the efforts of White and the Jubilee Singers, Fisk gained international recognition and laid the foundation for its esteemed Music Department. Over the years, the department expanded its offerings, attracting renowned faculty members and nurturing generations of talented musicians.

In the early 20th century, under the leadership of John W. Work II, the Fisk Music

Music Department Historical overview

Department flourished. Work, a distinguished composer, ethnomusicologist, and educator, elevated the department’s profile through his scholarly contributions and commitment to preserving African American musical heritage.

His research and compositions helped document spirituals and folk songs, ensuring that they would not fade into obscurity.

The Fisk Music Department continued to evolve, embracing diverse musical genres and fostering innovation. It became a hub for creativity and expression, attracting students from all walks of life who were drawn to its rich history and vibrant community.

Today, the legacy of the Fisk University Music Department endures. Its graduates have gone on to become leaders in the music industry, making significant contributions to jazz, classical, gospel, and beyond. The department remains dedicated to excellence, striving to uphold its tradition of artistic achievement and social impact.

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THEATRE: Stagecrafters

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Fisk University’s Acting Ensemble

he Fisk University Stagecrafters was organized in April of 1926, with English 142 (a class in Pageantry) as a nucleus. The director was Miss L. E. Cashin, Professor in Comparative Literature. Its purpose was the “fastening of art for art’s sake, the discovery and development of new talent, and the establishment of a little theatre on the Fisk campus.” The initial performance was Sophocles’ Antigone, which was presented in May, 1926.

From this rather auspicious beginning 98 years ago, Stagecrafters has evolved into the main University theatre group. They have occupied the Little Theatre since 1935.

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intensive study of plays and their production.

Membership is open to all students, who may participate as actors, designers, lighting technicians, make-up artists, or in the construction of scenery or costumes. Major productions and student directed laboratory performances are held each year.

Fisk University Stagecrafters are pleased to present STUDENT-LED PRODUCTIONS: Communicated Love and The Forest

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Communicated Love and The Forest to Fisk University during the Spring Arts Festival. These pieces are straight from the heart of myself and one of my closest friends. I was over the moon when our theatre advisor, Persephone Felder-Fentress, approved of doing student-led productions again.

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I am pleased that I had a strong team behind me to bring these productions from paper to the

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Writing is one of my favorite creative outlets, and I am beyond honored to share this creation with the world. Writing allows me to be

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Lily.................................................. Neveah Gay Crystal ................................ Scott Raegan Waller Alex Green .....................................Quintin Scott Alexa Jackson .............................. Sydney Ligon Destiny....................................... Lauren Hutchins Dancers........................ Gift Eni, Kennedy Camille Tamiya

Communicated Love is a story about keeping up communication in all different relationships.

I chose to write about this because it hits close to home, even though I am 3,000 miles away from home. Going to a college is not the easiest venture, let alone going to a college halfway across the country. Fisk has taught me how

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Assistant Director ............................ Rachel Ward Stage Manager ........................ Danielle Claybon

important the idea of family is because these are the people who will be here for you when you can’t be around your other family.

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Gift Onyekachi Eni

Kennedy Martin

Quintin Scott

Raegan Waller

Lauren Hutchins

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The Forest Written/Directed by

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Raya............................................. Aniyah Stoves Belief...................................... Hajr Abdurrahman Doubt......................................... Brynn Patterson Numbness................................................ Gift Eni Faith................................................ Asante Bates Dad......................................... Jonathan Calhoun Pastor............................................. Quintin Scott Dancers.................. Neveah Gay, Raegan Waller Kennedy Camille

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The Forest is a play dedicated to the loss of my mother, my life with grief, and the many emotions that have come with it. The verity of my experience is established in a piece of advice I once heard from my therapist—life, although ever-moving, is not linear.

It is cyclical. In this, you will have many emotions, however, they are not permanent. Therefore, it is okay to embrace and find beauty within them, but not to live in them. In this, you must “keep walking.”

The setting of the play takes place in 2018 to symbolize my mother’s passing on July 24, 2018, the lessons I have learned, and continue to learn. The setting of The Forest illustrates the initiation of grief.

In the forest there is usually an ongoing path of trees seen and/or walked through before reaching a new destination. This, to me, is the reality and the stages of grief.

At fourteen, it felt as though someone had dropped me in a foreign place, and it was up to me to navigate a new life. Due to this, it feels as though I have continued to grow within the forest, as my outlook on life has completely changed through loss.

In presenting this production, I hope to share with others the normality and importance of having a variety of emotions and feeling them, which are essential to one’s growth. The emotions you may feel in life do not take away from your purpose.

One of the last pieces of advice my mom gave me was to “Trust the process.” I have taken this approach throughout my life and especially my grief journey. I believe my story is a testament to purpose within pain, and I hope to share it with the world, to share motivation and inspiration. I hope to reach people who may not feel seen within their struggle and may want to clarify their own situations, whether the same or similar.

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Assistant Director............................ Asante Bates Stage Manager ........................ Danielle Claybon Set Designers............... Mekhi Love, Jaden Jones Make-Artists.... Leah Thomas, Hajr Abdurrahman

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Raegan Waller

Selene Wendt is an art historian, independent curator, and writer based in Oslo. Her ongoing curatorial focus is on decoloniality and socially engaged art practices, with emphasis on interdisciplinary projects situated at the intersection between contemporary art, music, and literature. For more information, about her work as a curator and writer please visit www.theglobalartproject.no Michelle Eistrup’s Four Faces of the Sun (2023) is a richly layered work centered around the ideology and symbolism of the Bakongo religion and the Kongo cosmogram, known as Dikenga. This large-scale multisensory installation builds upon Eistrup’s earlier work and her extensive research and interviews with renowned scholars, cultural anthropologists, and art historians.

Here, she implements visual, sonic, and kinetic elements in a fourchannel video installation that brings the spiritual language and power of Nkisi objects to life.

Stolen from Africa and dispersed throughout Western ethnographic museums, these artifacts (and what they represent spiritually) are also directly connected to the stories and heritage of African Americans living in the southern United States. In a continuation of Eistrup’s ongoing history lesson, she explores entangled colonial histories through a pared-down visual language that combines movement, dance, and music to convey themes ranging from respect and sorrow to honor, joy, and remembrance. The spiritual significance of Nkisi objects thereby

Four Faces of the Sun Michelle Eistrup Artistic Fellow at the John Lewis Center for Social Justice, Fisk Univeristy

comes to life visually and musically.

With dance and movement at the core of this work, the wider implications of the movement of Black bodies takes on multiple layers of meaning—through history, across oceans, and between geographies. As is often the case with Eistrup’s interdisciplinary approach to the shared cultural history of the Black Atlantic, Four Faces of the Sun connects bodies across geographies through objects, movement, and sound.

The dramatic poses of the dancers, conceived in direct response to the Bakongo gestures that are symbolized in Nkisi figures, create a strong visual impact against the brightly colored red, yellow and blue backdrops. The work translates to a powerful visual reminder of the direct link between the capture and containment of African bodies and the theft and looting of African artifacts

during the colonial era. One can almost hear the gentle whisper of ancestral voices in an extended scream from one side of the Atlantic to the other.

Positioned here, in the American south, on the Fisk University campus, at the very library that houses the original printing plates of W.E.B. Du Bois’s seminal book, The Souls of Black Folks, the work takes on additional nuance. These dancers are not simply performing, they are part of a crucial transition from passive observer (of a distant colonial past) to active participant (in a forceful decolonial strategy).

As they move across the external facade of the Fisk University Library, they activate and mark a historical site, through gestures and movements that are ultimately linked to the forced displacement of Black bodies from Africa, across the Atlantic, and to the Americas.

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Four Faces of the Sun, installation shot, Fisk University, Nashville, 2024 Photos: Michelle Eistrup

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Four Faces of the Sun, installation shot, Fisk University, Nashville, 2024 Photos: Michelle Eistrup and Lexander Bryant

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The Body, Colonialism, and the Jurisdiction of Justice's Possibility Featuring: Judge Rachel Bell, Dr. James Pratt, Qwynn Foster, and Michelle Eistrup.

In this event, we explore the ways that lives and bodies are understood through the archive and beyond. Through an interdisciplinary conversation bridging art, desire, law, and the social-behavioral human sciences, we consider what new vistas can be seen as we reckon with the legacies of marginalization(s). Our goal is to develop a lens through which we can see the possibility of new institutions and ways of seeing and being in the world.

—James Pratt, Jr., PhD

Judge Rachel L. Bell

James Pratt, Jr., PhD

Qwynn Foster

Michelle Eistrup

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In the Deep Underground and Up Above, Michelle Eistrup, 3-channel video, Busselton, Australia 2018.

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SPRING ARTS FESTIVAL COMMITTEE Persephone Felder-Fentress convener

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Dr. Agenia Clark President

Dr. Robert Carr Provost

Lakesha Moore Calvin James Dennis Michelle Eistrup Katara Grissom Adrienne Latham Alicia Henry Jamaal Sheats

Dr. Shirley Brown

Dean of Humanities, Behavioral and Social Sciences

Dr. Katherine Burnett

Chair, Department of English

Dr. Natara Garvin Shane Lowery Veronica Kizer Susan Matheson Parents and Families

of the Fisk University Stagecrafters

Nancy N. Apple

The Designing Apple Studio

ART CREDITS Art, front cover: Art, back cover: Bradley Watts Eric Newell Judgement Day Untitled Junior Sophomore Biology Art Stock Images, Dreamstime.com: ID 107369383 © Yevhen Verlen, pages 12, 13; ID 147552077 © Mariia Vasileva, page 15; ID 119095884 © Vitezslav Sipera. page 16,

This production uses the Artist Engagement Services of the University Resident Theatre Association.

Michelle Eistrup wishes to thank EADJ, Engine for Art, Democracy, and Justice, the Danish Arts Council, and the John Lewis Center for Social Justice Fisk University, who have sponsored this workshop and the Four Faces of the Sun.

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