History of Art and Architecture

Comfort With Rage: A Conversation

Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

Please join us for a special conversation with writer, Angie Cruz, visual artist, Laylah Ali and poet, Diana Khoi Nguyen. Cruz, Ali and Nguyen will discuss the nature of collaboration in their work and their artistic process.

This event celebrates the launch of Aster(ix) Journal’s Spring 2024 issue featuring a series of prose pieces written in reaction to and in conversation with drawings by Laylah Ali’s Studies series. Contributors include Victoria Chang, Caro De Robertis, Jacquira Diaz, Patricia Engel, Chinelo Okperanka, and Alejandro Varela.

This event is made possible with the support of Dr. R.A Judy, the University of Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School of the Arts & Sciences, CAAPP: Center for African American Poetry & Poetics, Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, Department of Studio Arts and Pitt’s University Art Gallery (UAG).

Light food and refreshments will be served.

Please RSVP here