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Black Art & Black Audiences
Season 2016 Episode 39 | 26m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
How are artists and audiences of color benefitting from the newfound focus on the arts?
Mayor Walsh has made a real effort to revitalize Boston's creative community, even going so far as having a cabinet level arts czar. But how are artists of color benefiting from these efforts? Panelists: Jason Talbot, Artists for Humanity; Summer Williams, Company One Theatre; Barbara Lewis, director of the Trotter Institute at UMass Boston; and Kim McLarin, associate professor at Emerson College.
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Basic Black is a local public television program presented by GBH
Basic Black
Black Art & Black Audiences
Season 2016 Episode 39 | 26m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Mayor Walsh has made a real effort to revitalize Boston's creative community, even going so far as having a cabinet level arts czar. But how are artists of color benefiting from these efforts? Panelists: Jason Talbot, Artists for Humanity; Summer Williams, Company One Theatre; Barbara Lewis, director of the Trotter Institute at UMass Boston; and Kim McLarin, associate professor at Emerson College.
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