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On Mentorship: Public Discussion with Anna Deavere Smith and Samora Pinderhughes at Wesleyan
January 24 @ 6:00 pm
Free and open to the public.ddd
Anna Deavere Smith Hon. ’97, the 2024–2025 CFA Artist in Residence, will engage in a discussion about method and mentorship with musician and composer Samora Pinderhughes.
One of the most important relationships artists can have is to each other. In this conversation, Smith and Pinderhughes will explore the history and meaning of their relationship as mentor/mentee, and how they nurture similar reciprocal relations in the worlds they create through their individual arts practices.
Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes is a composer known for large multidisciplinary projects that use music to examine sociopolitical issues. He has toured internationally with artists including Branford Marsalis, Christian Scott, Common, and Emily King; and is the first Art for Justice + Soros Justice Fellow, given to him in support of “The Healing Project,” which centers on the question: What if we built our world around healing?
Read Anna Deavere Smith Starts Yearlong Artist Residency in The Wesleyan Connection.