Join the SCAD Museum of Art’s Evans Center for African American Studies for Sermon II: Our Mourning Due [a live performance], an experimental multimedia collaboration between exhibiting artists Akeema-Zane and Rena Anakwe. The contemporary artists come together to weave a dirge composed of their writings alongside the poem “Go Down Death” (1927) by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938). Inspired by Johnson’s words and Aaron Douglas’ (1899-1979) accompanying illustrations, they create a living, breathing offering to honor “what it means to rest in a time of mourning.” Extending themes in Johnson’s poem, Akeema-Zane and Anakwe consider the relationship between Black women, labor, and death.

Free and open to the public, this event is the second installment in a programmatic mini-series titled Sermons, presented as an extension of the exhibition Aaron Douglas: Sermons. Combining both secular and spiritual affiliations, the Sermons series focuses on sites of inquiry that provide upliftment and/or passageways toward liberation.

To RSVP, email jdiaz@scad.edu.