On August 27 and 28, we hosted an exhibit "Power Poses, Movement, and the Presence of Katherine Dunham and Judith Jamison," which highlighted how posture, presence, and movement express embodied power, inaugurating a new series curated by African American literary studies. Sparked by Dana Williams’s November 18, 2024 talk at the National Museum of African American History & Culture, and the vivid images of Judith Jamison, the exhibit also traced how that moment catalyzed upgrades to SIUE’s Eugene B. Redmond Reading Room to create enhanced environments.
Panels paired concise reflections on Jamison and Dunham with original poems and kwansabas by Angel Dye, Cindy N. Reed, and Danielle N. Hall, while introducing the kwansaba as a modern African American poetic form.
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