Name: "Ribbon in the Sky: Soul, Funk and the Enduring Power of Black Art": Badger Talk in Madison, WI
Start: 2024-06-29T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art

"Ribbon in the Sky: Soul, Funk and the Enduring Power of Black Art": Badger Talk in Madison, WI

This is a free, in-person talk hosted on June 29, 2024 at 2:00 PM by the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. No registration required.
Drawing from the musicians who have inspired artwork by William Villalongo currently on display at MMoCA, from Nina Simone to Steve Wonder to George Clinton, this lecture will be about how the greatest African-American musicians of the 1960s and 1970s both chronicled and inspired the social activism of the time, and inspired activists and artists alike to the present day.
Presenter Alexander Shashko is a Lecturer in the Department of African American History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches classes on the history of Black popular music from the blues to hip-hop, and the history of the Civil Rights Movement. He is a Wisconsin native and a voter for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
William Villalongo: Myths and Migrations is on display in the Main Galleries at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art May 3-August 11, 2024.
Image credit: William Villalongo, “Higher Ground”, 2007.
Acrylic and cut velour paper on canvas, 72 x 108 inches.
© William Villalongo. Courtesy of the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, New York