Museum of Fine Arts
Peter Whitfield
Boston Public Library - Abbey Room
Stacey Cushner received her BS at Brandeis University and her MFA in Visual Art at Lesley University’s College of Art and Design. She teaches painting and drawing in the studio arts program at the Museum of Fine Arts and maintains a studio in Boston. Her work has been featured at SCOPE Art Basel, Switzerland, Art Southampton, New York, Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco, CONTEXT Pier 94, New York. She was awarded a residency at The WYE in Berlin, Germany and in Holland with the OBRAS foundation. Ms. Cushner will be at the Red Gate Gallery in April, 2017 as the artist in residence in Beijing, China. Please see www.staceycushner.com to see her most recent work.
Museum of Fine Arts
The speakers will include three authors who have all reflected and written on the complex issues of race and structural injustice. Tommie Shelby, Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform; Elizabeth Hinton, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America; Khalil Gibran Muhammad, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America The moderator, Danielle Allen is a Professor of Government at Harvard.
First Parish Church in Cambridge
Paula Findlen
Boston College - Gasson 100
Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts
Congressman Jim McGovern; President Gladys Collazo Usallán, Cuban National Cultural Heritage Council; Finca Vigía Foundation Board Member and TV host Bob Vila; and former Hemingway Curator Susan Wrynn
John F. Kennedy Library
Alison Gopnik, author of the New York Times bestseller The Gardener and the Carpenter, and professor of psychology and philosophy at UC Berkeley
First Parish Church in Cambridge
Major Jackson
Boston College - Devlin 101
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