SPECIAL EVENTS

Houston Museum of African American Culture, in partnership with the University of Houston Mitchell Center for the Arts, presents a Preview/Presentation:  red, black and GREEN: a blues, Thursday, November 4, at 6:30PM.  LOCATION: Houston Museum of African American Culture, 4807 Caroline.

Artist-in-residence Marc Bamuthi Joseph will present a preview of his work-in-progress, red, black and GREEN: a blues, a multimedia piece that lands at the intersection of green economics and black psychology using performance, music, movement and poetry.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a National Poetry Slam champion, Broadway veteran, GOLDIE award winner, featured artist on the past two seasons of Russell Simmons' Def Poetry on HBO and a recipient of 2002 and 2004 National Performance Network Creation commissions.
 
In the fall of 2007, Bamuthi graced the cover of Smithsonian Magazine after being named one of America's Top Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences. He is the artistic director of the 7-part HBO documentary "Russell Simmons presents Brave New Voices" and an inaugural recipient of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship, which annually recognizes 50 of the country's "greatest living artists".

This is a taste of Bamuthi’s work, not to be missed!

The complete performance of red, black and GREEN: a blues will be presented by the Mitchell Center in fall 2011.