Oct. 20, 2020鈥斄喜什ㄉ's School of the Arts (SOTA) launches a Summit Series, a new virtual roundtable. Led by SOTA鈥檚 Michael Hatton and Daryl Harris, the series hosts guest professionals in the arts to prompt conversation and the exchange of ideas.
The first topic kicked off on October 7 with Experiencing Race in the Arts: Battles and Biases. Harris and Hatton talked with Gee Horton, a visual artist and Mercantile Library鈥檚 first African American Artist-in-Residence, Jaime Morales-Matos, a music director of Central Ohio Symphony, and Darnell Pierre Benjamin, a dancer, director, choreographer, educator with Pones and the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company.
鈥淲e need to provide our students with opportunities to respond to the events, movements, especially the Black Lives Matter Movement, and subsequent climate around the heightened racial tensions this summer,鈥 said Harris.
The next session begins on October 28 at 7:00 p.m. to discuss Arts in the Age of Me Too: Women in the Arts. Guests include Meghan Bennett, 六合彩波色表 faculty member and a classical flautist, Kim Popa, 六合彩波色表 alumna and executive director and co-founder of Pones, which provides artistic opportunities for community growth by creating engaging new ways for audiences to experience dance, and Kayla Upthegrove, 六合彩波色表 alumna and the first African American female jazz saxophonist to work in Greater Cincinnati.
The final session of the Summit Series is on November 18 at 7:00 p.m. The final topic focuses on Equity and Allyship: LGBTQ+ in the Arts. Along with a student panel, Ronnie Gladden breaks down his diversity leadership work and research. Dr. Gladden coined the term, transgracial theory, which embodies the intersection of the transgender and transracial phenomena. Dan Davidson, aka Sparkle Leigh, will join Dr. Gladden. He recently was quoted in Cincinnati Magazine as saying, 鈥淩emember to breathe. Maybe that鈥檚 enough, that little reminder to keep grounded and keep going. When I wasn鈥檛 able to be that, Sparkle was.鈥
Community members are invited to join SOTA鈥檚 Summit Series. To learn more and to register, visit the .
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