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African American History Month Events Calendar

‘Conversations: Art+Music+Poetry’ 

Found Objects American artist Lonnie Holley is an art-educator, sculptor, painter and musician, Lonnie Holley. This month he will collaborate with youth from the Carpenter Art Garden for “Conversations: Art+Music+Poetry.”

The exhibit opens Thursday (Feb. 1) at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library and extends through Feb. 28. The opening reception is set for February 8 in the library’s Goodwyn Gallery from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

A self taught visual artist and musician from Birmingham, Ala., Holley has devoted his life to the practice or improvisational creativity. His work is now in collections of major museums throughout the country, on permanent display in the United Nations and has been displayed in the White House Rose Garden.

Carpenter Art Garden youth have been working with teaching artists Danny Broadway, Shelley Bolton, Camaron Spencer and Katie Stonecipher to create pieces inspired by Holley’s work and Black History Month. The projects feature drawing, painting, collage and written word.

Holley will perform February 13, from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. during the monthly Front Porch Music & Cultural Series. On February 14 he will facilitate an after-school workshop with youth at Carpenter Art Garden. The next day he will host two 90-minute workshops at Lester Prep Middle and Cornerstone Elementary. Both schools are located in the Binghampton neighborhood served by Benjamin Hooks Central Library.

The Benjamin Hooks Central Library is located at 3030 Poplar Ave.

Fred Davis to receive Holmon Lifetime Achievement Award

Fred L. Davis will be honored with the Authur S. Holmon Lifetime Achievement Award at the Black History Month Opening Reception Thursday, Feb. 1, at 7 p.m. in the Rose Theatre at the University of Memphis.

Davis is being recognized for his work as a civil rights activist, entrepreneur and servant leader. He opened Fred L. Davis Insurance in 1967, one of the first African-American-owned insurance agencies in the South.

Davis pursued his master’s degree at the UofM, but before graduating he was elected to the Memphis City Council. He was chair of the Public Works Committee during the sanitation workers strike of 1968, and was on the platform with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he made his final speech in Memphis that year.

Davis walked beside King on the last march made in support of striking workers before King’s assassination. In 1972 he became the first African-American to chair the City Council.

The event is sponsored by the University of Memphis Black Student Association.

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