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Black in Black on Black: Making the Invisible Visible in Western North Carolina

Center for Craft, John Cram Partner Gallery 67 Broadway Street, Asheville

Black in Black on Black: Making the Invisible Visible is an exhibition about the lives and contributions of Black/African American communities in Western North Carolina (WNC). Presenting works of art alongside oral histories and research data, Black in Black on Black is a visual conversation about an often invisible history of our region.

Visiting Writers Series: A Literary Reading by Poet Diamond Forde, the English Department’s University Fellow for Faculty Diversity

Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum

The English Department's University Fellow for Faculty Diversity, Diamond Forde's debut collection, Mother Body, is the winner of the 2019 Saturnalia Poetry Prize. She has received numerous awards and prizes, including the Pink Poetry Prize, the Furious Flower Poetry Prize, and CLA's Margaret Walker Memorial Prize, and placed in the Frontier Poetry's New Poets Award. She is a Callaloo and Tin House fellow, whose work has appeared in Massachusetts Review, Ninth Letter, NELLE, Tupelo Quarterly and more.