Join us on Zoom for discussion about African-American cowboy history and contemporary culture from the perspectives of Pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist, Ron Tarver, and Grammy-award winning musician Dom Flemons. This event relates to the Library's current exhibit, Westward Bound: African-American Country Music History & Cowboy Lore, which is on display at Central Library through December 14. This exhibit culminates in the Deford Bailey Legacy Music Festival at Freight & Salvage.
This event is online and hosted on Zoom. Go to the virtual event here.
More about Ron Tarver: Ron Tarver is an Associate Professor and Chair of Art at Swarthmore College. He shares a Pulitzer Prize with the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he was a staff photojournalist for 32 years. He has Guggenheim and Pew Fellowships, as well as grants from National Geographic, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Independence Foundation Fellowships. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in over 50 solo exhibitions. It is included in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution and other instinctual and private collections. He is represented by the Robin Rice Gallery in New York City. His current book The Long Ride Home: Black Cowboys in America debuted September 1, 2024, as the number one best new release on Amazon. And can be borrowed from the Berkeley Public Library.
More about Dom Flemons: Dom Flemons is known as “The American Songster®" since his repertoire covers over one hundred years of American roots music. Flemons is a folk musician, black country artist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music scholar, historian, actor, slam poet, record collector, curator, podcaster, cultural commentator, influencer, and the creator, host, and producer of the American Songster Radio Show on WSM in Nashville, TN. He is the Co-Founder and original member of the groundbreaking Carolina Chocolate Drops, the first ever black string band to win a GRAMMY Award. Over the past 25 years, he has received major awards, gained world-wide media recognition and has become one of the most influential and highly decorated voices in American roots music.