Cross Currents: Improvised Truths — Curtis Patterson and the Jazz of Form

Join us for Improvised Truths: Curtis Patterson and the Jazz of Form, the latest iteration of Cross Currents, a series using visual art as a catalyst for interdisciplinary dialogue, as we explore how Patterson’s bronze and steel sculptures channel the improvisational language of jazz and African diasporic symbolism into visual metaphors of movement, continuity, and cross-cultural memory.

5:00 p.m. Reception
5:30 p.m. Panel Discussion
6:30 p.m. Jazz Performance

Panelists
Dr. Sharlene Sinegal-DeCuir, Professor of History and Chair of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Xavier University of Louisiana
Donald Harrison Jr., saxophonist, composer, and Big Chief of the Congo Square Nation Afro-New Orleans Cultural Group
Dr. Allison Young, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History, LSU

Moderated by Dr. Joel Rhone, Assistant Professor of Literature, University of Louisiana Lafayette

Free for museum members, UL students, faculty and staff. General public entry with museum admission.

Presented by Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities