BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:237177@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260908T034612Z DTSTART:20260929T193000Z DTEND:20260929T203000Z SUMMARY:Primary: After and With Alma Thomas —\\; Alexis Pauline Gumb s in conversation with Bettina Judd DESCRIPTION:This is a free\\, in-person only event and registration is en couraged. Register here –\\; https://www.eventbrite.com/e/primary-af ter-and-with-alma-thomas-alexis-pauline-gumbs-bettina-judd-tickets-199709 1727116?aff=oddtdtcreator.\\nThis event takes place in the Winter Theater at Agnes Scott College (141 E. College St Decatur\\, GA 30030). Doors op en at 7:00pm. Event begins promptly at 7:30pm.This event is open to the g eneral public and the Agnes Scott College community.\\nCharis and the Wom en’\\;s Gender and Sexuality Studies and Creative Art Departments of Agnes Scott College present an evening with Alexis Pauline Gumbs in conv ersation with Bettina Judd in celebration of Primary: After and With Alma Thomas. This book is an exploration of sisterhood\\, creativity\\, and c ommunity inspired by the artist Alma Thomas’s life and work\\, from the award-winning poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs.\\nAlma Thomas (1891–1978) was an influential figure in twentieth-century modern art\\, best known for her bright\\, mosaiclike abstract paintings. Although some critics have s een Thomas’s emphasis on beauty\\, color\\, and abstract art as a way t o divorce her work from her life as a Black woman\\, Alexis Pauline Gumbs reveals how Thomas’s art was\\, in fact\\, deeply rooted in the Black community in which she lived. Black\\, in other words\\, was one of Thoma s’s primary colors.\\nGumbs sheds light on Thomas’s experience as a j unior high school teacher in the still-segregated schools of Washington\\ , D.C.\\, where Thomas—as educator\\, mentor\\, and advocate—establis hed community art programs for Black schoolchildren and galleries to show case Black artists’ work. In this volume of poems and prose\\, Gumbs be comes a student of Thomas\\, allowing the wonder in Thomas’s work to op en her to wonder about her own creativity\\, sistering\\, daughtering\\, and practice of communal transformation.\\nAbout the author\\nAlexis Paul ine Gumbs grew up in the Charis High School Feminist Writers Circle and i s cherished by a broad community of readers for her poetic devotion to Bl ack feminist possibility. Her most recent book\\, Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde was named a best book of the year by TIME \\, Publisher’\\;s Weekly and the New York Public Library\\, won the Zora Award and the Judy Grahn Prize in nonfiction and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and Brooklyn Public Library Book Award. Alexis l ives in Durham\\, North Carolina in a constant ceremony of Black feminist transformation with her partner and collaborator Sangodare and their bel oved community.\\nAbout the conversation partner\\nBettina Judd is an int erdisciplinary writer\\, artist and performer whose research focus is on Black women’\\;s creative production and use of visual art\\, litera ture\\, and music to develop feminist thought. Her book Feelin: Creative Practice\\, Pleasure\\, and Black Feminist Thought (Northwestern Universi ty Press\\, December 2022) argues that Black women’s creative productio n is feminist knowledge production produced by registers of affect she ca lls “feelin.” She is currently Associate Professor of African America n Studies at Emory University.\\nHer poems and essays have appeared in Fe minist Studies\\, Torch\\, Mythium\\, Meridians and other journals and an thologies. Her collection of poems titled patient. which tackles the hist ory of medical experimentation on and display of Black women won the Blac k Lawrence Press Hudson Book Prize and was released in November of 2014. As a performer she has been invited to perform for audiences within the U nited States and internationally.\\nAbout Our Partners\\nThe Agnes Scott Women’s\\, Gender\\, and Sexuality Studies Department invites students to explore gender and its intersections with sexuality\\, race and ethnic ity\\, nationality\\, disability\\, and class. Women and gender are analy zed from the perspective of the humanities\\, fine arts\\, social and nat ural sciences.\\nThe Agnes Scott Department of Creative Arts guides visua l artists\\, musicians\\, dancers\\, writers\\, actors and other creative s within a liberal arts tradition to define and contextualize their indiv idual pursuits in response to our times’\\; intellectual and social challenges. This program prepares students for creative expression in var ious settings.\\nThe Literature\\, Media\\, and Writing Department at Spe lman College offers comprehensive training in English-language literary\\ , visual\\, and rhetorical traditions with a special emphasis on Black wo men’s contributions to global histories of cultural expression.\\nThe J ames Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University supports scholarship an d public engagement that examines race and intersecting dimensions of hum an difference including but not limited to class\\, gender\\, religion\\, and sexuality.\\nAbout the venue: The Winter Theater is located within t he Dana Fine Arts Center on Agnes Scott College’\\;s campus. The spa ce is wheelchair accessible. Masks are encouraged but not required. Free parking is available to the public in the parking deck on S. McDonough St and Buttrick Dr.\\nIf you have any questions or to request specific acce ssibility accommodations including ASL interpretation\\, please contact i nfo@chariscircle.org or call the store at 404-524-0304.\\nThe event is fr ee and open to all people\\, but we encourage and appreciate a donation o f $5-20 in support of the work of Charis Circle\\, our programming non-pr ofit. Donate on Crowdcast or via our website: www.chariscircle.org/donate or in person at the event.\\nBy attending our event you agree to our Cod e of Conduct: Our event seeks to provide a harassment-free experience for everyone\\, regardless of gender\\, gender identity and expression\\, ag e\\, sexual orientation\\, disability\\, physical appearance\\, body size \\, race\\, ethnicity\\, religion (or lack thereof)\\, class\\, or techno logy choices. We do not tolerate harassment in any form. Unsolicited sexu al language and imagery are not appropriate. 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