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Pick Of The Week
Killing The Negative: A Conversation In Art & Verse
February 22, 2pm
Philbrook Museum of Art, 2727 S. Rockford Rd.
Since 2019, Tulsa Artist Fellowship alum Joel Daniel Phillips has been working with "killed negatives"—hole-punched photographs that originated from the Farm Security Administration (FSA), a government agency that sent photographers across the U.S. to document widespread poverty during the Great Depression. With poetry by Quraysh Ali Lansana, written in response to these photos, and Phillips' meticulous drawings, "Killing the Negative" considers discarded images, erased histories, and the power of reclaiming human stories. This afternoon of readings and discussion marks the opening of the exhibit, on view through May 24. —Alicia Chesser
Wednesday, February 18
Screening: “Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming A Space”
6pm at Rudisill Regional Library, 1520 N. Hartford
Lunar New Year Wine Dinner
6:30pm at Duet, 108 N. Detroit