Conversation: Morton Theatre Corporation Defiance Project Awards

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On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, IAAS Director Dr. Carolyn Jones Medine moderated a conversation among four of the Morton Theatre Corporation Defiance Project Award winners: visual artists Noraa James and Broderick Flanigan; musical artist Kxng Blanco; and filmmaker Booker T. Mattison, assistant professor of entertainment and media studies in the UGA Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. 

The event was presented by the University of Georgia Willson Center for Humanities and Arts as part of the 2021 Global Georgia Initiative public events series, in partnership with the UGA Institute of African American Studies, the Morton Theatre Corporation, and Flagpole magazine. Check out the recorded conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4QPzNOpxoU 

 

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Director's Spotlight

Personnel


Carolyn Jones Medine

Director, Institute for African American Studies, All Shall Be Well Professor of Religion
medine@uga.edu

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