Art Dealer David Lusenhop Interviews Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell

The landmark exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power opened at Tate Modern in London in July of 2017 and included over 100 paintings, photographs, sculptures, and prints by 60 influential artists of the 1960s and ’70s. Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell were among these artists. Some were already part of the canon of art history, including Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Faith Ringgold, and Charles White. Many other artists, whose works were often excluded from mainstream museum exhibitions, are now receiving the critical attention they deserve.

On Thursday, January 21 at 7 pm, the Library will host an online art talk with David Lusenhop and Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell. Lusenhop will interview the Jarrells about the important moments in their six-decade careers, including their two-person exhibition Heritage: Wadsworth and Jae Jarrell that opened at the Cleveland Museum of Art in late 2017.

Jae Jarrell is a Cleveland artist best known for her fashion designs that inspire pride, power, energy, and respect in African-American communities, and Wadsworth Jarrell is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker.

For more information and resources related to African-American art and artists, please visit the Main Library Reference Desk or check out a copy of the book, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power.

Please register at https://rb.gy/oltxuh to receive a Zoom link to the program.