Gallery Talk, Windham-Campbell Prize Recipient Lorna Goodison on Jacob Lawrence

Jacob Lawrence, Workshop, 1972

Jacob Lawrence, Workshop, 1972. Color lithograph. Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Martin Oppenheimer, LL.B. 1956. © Jacob Lawrence

Lorna Goodison is best known for her poetry, her essays, and her stories, but she is also a trained visual artist who once painted alongside Jacob Lawrence at the Arts Students League of New York. Tess Korobkin, Ph.D. 2018 and National Board Fellow, James Smithson Fellowship Program, talks with Goodison about Lawrence’s Workshop (1972). Presented in conjunction with the Windham-Campbell Prizewinners Festival.



Space is limited. Please meet in the Gallery lobby.