Rhiannon Giddens
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Sunday, October 27th, from 1PM - 2PM
Acclaimed musician and MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient Rhiannon Giddens discusses the history of African influences on early American folk music in a conversation presented on the occasion of the exhibition Photography + Folk Art: Looking For America in the 1930s, for which she curated a selection of songs. She is joined in conversation by author John Jeremiah Sullivan.
If this program reaches capacity, a standby line will form outside the venue 30 minutes before the event begins.
About Rhiannon Giddens:
Rhiannon Giddens is a celebrated artist who excavates the past to reveal truths about our present. She has performed for the Obamas at the White House and acted in two seasons of the hit television series Nashville. A MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Giddens was Grammy-nominated for her acclaimed solo album Tomorrow Is My Turn and her T Bone Burnett–produced EP Factory Girl. Her work with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a group she co-founded, received a Grammy Award in 2010. Giddens has been profiled by CBS Sunday Morning, the New York Times, and NPR’s Fresh Air, among other outlets. She is featured in Ken Burns’s Country Music series, coming to PBS this fall. Giddens contributed to the album Songs of Our Native Daughters (2019), which tells stories of historic black womanhood and survival, and her collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi, there is no Other (2019), is at once a condemnation of “othering” and a celebration of the spread of ideas, connectivity, and shared experience.
About John Jeremiah Sullivan:
John Jeremiah Sullivan is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and the southern editor of The Paris Review. He writes for GQ, Harper’s Magazine, and Oxford American, and is the author of Blood Horses and Pulphead. Sullivan lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.
SPONSORS
Support for public programs is provided in part by the Woman’s Board of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Image: Rhiannon Giddens. Photo by Ebru Yildiz.
Fullerton Hall
Free with museum admission; registration required
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