Art After Dark: Creativity & Resilience

Admission

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Description

> A conversation about storytelling, music, and resilience with Leila Steinberg, an educator, writer, poet, founder of AIM4TheHeART, and former manager of Tupac Shakur, and Diego Gaeta, a keyboardist and producer known for blending 1970s jazz, hip hop, global folk, and chamber music. Moderated by USC professor Brittany Friedman.

> Live music by Diego Gaeta, who gained notice for his dynamic and soulful playing in the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra and contributed to André 3000’s New Blue Sun.

> Performances by USC Thornton School of Music students in the Special Topic Seminar taught by poet, musician, activist, and USC professor Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother).

> After-hours access to Ken Gonzales-Day: History’s “Nevermade”, a comprehensive survey of work by the artist, teacher, and scholar, whose oeuvre confronts the omissions and erasures in official narratives with a particular focus on race, place, memory, and gender identity in the United States and Europe. The exhibition will run from August 19, 2025, through March 14, 2026.

> Interactive art-making activities and refreshments.

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Presented by USC Visions and Voices. Organized by the USC Fisher Museum of Art. Co-sponsored by the Center for Black Cultural and Student Affairs, USC Dornsife Department of Sociology, and USC Thornton Composition Program.