ART CLASS Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Happy Pride, Classmates and welcome back to ART CLASS! We're back to our regularly scheduled programming this week with two fantastic conversations for you to enjoy. First, we're joined by the fabulous and talented Giselle Byrd, Executive Director of The Theater Offensive in Boston and the first Black trans woman to hold such a title at an American theater company. We'll chat about the need for representation and change in the theater industry, particularly for marginalized communities, as well as the challenges faced by trans leaders everywhere. Then Career Day is back! We're joined by esteemed artist and author Shawn Martinbrough, who'll teach us all about breaking into the comic book industry. Plus, the Morning Announcements with Emilia, a nerdy little PBJ for your soul, and we'll be joined all show by our dear, dear friend and Lincoln Center colleague, Frankie Charles! Take your seats, y'all! Class is in session!
Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Mabolé Inawale)
Guests: Giselle Byrd, Shawn Martinbrough
Contributor: Emilia Mettenbrink, Frankie Charles
Producer: Rocky Jones
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Links
The Theater Offensive (Website)
Giselle Byrd (Insta)
Shawn Martinbrough (Website) (Insta)
Anansi Boys Announcement (THR)
Judge Kim Book Seriese (Forbes)
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New episodes of ART CLASS drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. For more info about the show, please visit lincolncenter.org/ArtClass. Email your questions or comments to artclasspod@gmail.com.
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Thanks to Our Supporters!
Major support for Campaign for One Million Kids provided by Leonard and Judy Lauder
Lead support for educational programming is provided by Anonymous
Major support for educational programming is provided by LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and The Walt Disney Company
Additional support is provided by Constans Culver Foundation, NBCUniversal, the Richmond County Savings Foundation, Alice L. Walton Foundation, the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, the Theodore H. Barth Foundation, The Katz Family Charitable Lead Trust, Tom and Musa Mayer, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Giants Foundation, Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc., William Sherman, trustee for the Murray G. and Beatrice H. Sherman...

We have a very special episode for you today, Classmates! Last April, as part of the Hear it Here Podcast Festival, we gathered at Lincoln Center's David Rubinstein Atrium to sit in the presence of music royalty! So please join us for an audience with Nona Hendryx, legendary singer/songwriter, technological innovator, and all-around wise and wonderful person. She'll talk to us about her long, illustrious career spent blurring the lines between genres and her brand new project, "The Dream Machine," which will debut this summer as part of Lincoln Center's Summer for the City. Later on in the conversation, we're joined by two young artists working with her on "The Dream Machine," Nia-Simone Egerton and Sophia Edwards, who chat about their experience making this larger-than-life project come to fruition. We're so excited to finally share this experience with all of you, so take your seats. Class in session! LIVE!!!
Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Mabolé Inawale)
Guests: Nona Hendryx, Nia-Simone Egerton, Sophia Edwards
Contributor: Emilia Mettenbrink
Producer: Rocky Jones
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Links
Nona Hendryx (Website) (Insta)
The Dream Machine Experience (Learn More) (Buy Tickets)
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New episodes of ART CLASS drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. For more info about the show, please visit lincolncenter.org/ArtClass. Email your questions or comments to artclasspod@gmail.com.
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Thanks to Our Supporters!
Major support for Campaign for One Million Kids provided by Leonard and Judy Lauder
Lead support for educational programming is provided by Anonymous
Major support for educational programming is provided by LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and The Walt Disney Company
Additional support is provided by Constans Culver Foundation, NBCUniversal, the Richmond County Savings Foundation, Alice L. Walton Foundation, the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, the Theodore H. Barth Foundation, The Katz Family Charitable Lead Trust, Tom and Musa Mayer, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Giants Foundation, Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc., William Sherman, trustee for the Murray G. and Beatrice H. Sherman Charitable Trust
Educational programming is made possible, in part, with public support facilitated by New York City Council Members Julie Menin and Keith Powers

Welcome to another episode of ART CLASS, dear classmates! On this week's episode, we continue our discussion about creating more equitable and inclusive spaces in classical music with Lecolion Washington, a brilliant musician who's blazing new trails as the Executive Director of the Community Music Center of Boston (0:05:32). And boy, do we talk about it all: fundraising, DEI initiatives, mentorship, a life-changing encounter with Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and more! It's a conversation you don't want to miss! After that, part two of Paige's Kinfolk conversation with Gambian kora virtuoso and founder of The Gambia Academy, Sona Jobarteh (0:46:38). In this installment, Sona talks about why it's so important for her to preserve African traditions for future generations and for people across the African diaspora. Plus, Morning Announcements with Emilia (0:42:55) and a little Pure Black Joy (1:04:35) to get you through to the end of the week. Take your seats, because class is in session, y'all!
Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Mabolé Inawale)
Guests: Julia Bullock, Sona Jobarteh
Contributor: Emilia Mettenbrink
Producer: Rocky Jones
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Lecolion Washington (Insta)
Community Music Center of Boston (Website) (May 16 Event!)
Sona Jobarteh (Website) (Instagram)
ETHEL and Friends Series at the Met (Website)
Sphinx Virtuosi (Website)
Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams (Buy Now)
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New episodes of ART CLASS drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. For more info about the show, please visit lincolncenter.org/ArtClass. Email your questions or comments to artclasspod@gmail.com.
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Thanks to Our Supporters!
Major support for Campaign for One Million Kids provided by Leonard and Judy Lauder
Lead support for educational programming is provided by Anonymous
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Greetings, Classmates! It's time for a brand new episode of ART CLASS and have we got a show for you today! This episode we're talking to two incredible Black women artists who are both blazing exciting new trails in their fields. First up, we talk to Grammy Award-winning singer, activist and friend of the show, Julia Bullock, in advance of her Metropolitan Opera debut tonight in John Adams and Peter Sellars' El Niño (0:16:43). We chat all about how this gorgeous new production is coming together and how to create a more equitable and inclusive future for the next generation of operamakers. After that, Paige is back with another installment of Kinfolk with Gambian kora virtuoso, griot, and founder of The Gambia Academy, Sona Jobarteh (0:49:29). In part one of their chat, Sona gets into what it's been like to gain world-renown playing an instrument traditionally played by men and the inspiration behind her latest album, Badinyaa Kumoo. All that, plus the Morning Announcements with Emile (0:45:26) and a little PBJ to get you through the rest of your week (1:00:18). Take your seats, folks. Class is in session! 

Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Mabolé Inawale)
Guests: Julia Bullock, Sona Jobarteh
Contributor: Emilia Mettenbrink
Producer: Rocky Jones
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Links
Julia Bullock (Website) (Instagram)
Sona Jobarteh (Website) (Instagram)
Metropolitan Opera's El Niño: Apr 23-May 17 (Website)
Walking in the Dark (Spotify)
The Swann (Website)
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (Website)
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New episodes of ART CLASS drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. For more info about the show, please visit lincolncenter.org/ArtClass. Email your questions

Happy Tuesday, Classmates! Did you survive all the earthquakes and eclipses?! Oh good, because do we have jam-packed show for you today! First up, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and The New Yorker theater critic Hilton Als, editor of the new book God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin. We chat with Hilton all about the legacy of the legendary James Baldwin and the lessons his life and work can offer us today (0:18:14). After that, stay tuned for part 2 of Paige's Kinfolk conversation with Hannah Mayree of the Black Banjo Reclamation Project (0:45:53). Plus, the Morning Announcements with Emile (0:41:54) and a little Pure Black Joy (1:02:37) to get you to the end of the week. Take your seats, everybody. Class is in session!
Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Mabolé Inawale)
Guests: Hilton Als, Hannah Mayree
Contributor: Emilia Mettenbrink
Producer: Rocky Jones
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Links
Hilton Als (Website)
God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin (Book) (Exhibition)
Black Banjo Reclamation Project (Website)
James Baldwin at 100 (Website)
Sugar Hill Salon Chamber Music (Website)
Ensemble Obiora (Website)
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New episodes of ART CLASS drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. For more info about the show, please visit lincolncenter.org/ArtClass. Email your questions or comments to artclasspod@gmail.com.
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Thanks to Our Supporters!
Major support for Campaign for One Million Kids provided by Leonard and Judy Lauder
Lead support for educational programming is provided by Anonymous
Major support for educational programming is provided by LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and The Walt Disney Company
Additional support is provided by Constans

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Let's get straight to it, Classmates! Today on ART CLASS, we are honored to be talking with a bonafide legend! Whom you ask? How about the ambassador for New Orleans bounce music, who's also an iconic entrepreneur, and a fierce advocate for racial justice and queer rights? Yes, that's right, on this episode we will be chatting with the Queen Diva herself, BIG FREEDIA (0:13:55)!!! 🤯 And as if that weren't exciting enough, we're also bringing you the next installment of our Kinfolk series with Hannah Mayree of the Black Banjo Reclamation Project (0:42:28). In this first conversation of two, Hannah and Paige talk all about BBRP and their mission to reconnect Black people with the banjo, an incredibly important part of our musical and cultural history. All that, plus the Morning Announcements with Emile (0:39:11) and a special PB&J for all you soap opera fans (0:59:14). Take your seats, y'all, because class is in session!
***Oh, and if you're in NYC on Wednesday, April 10 at 7:30pm, please come check us out live at Lincoln Center's David Rubenstein Atrium. Rumor has it that we'll be joined by another spectacular, legendary, iconic guest. For more details, go here. We hope you'll come hang out and have some fun with us!***
Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Mabolé Inawale)
Guests: Big Freedia, Hannah Mayree
Contributor: Emilia Mettenbrink
Producer: Rocky Jones
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Links
Big Freedia (Website) (Instagram)
Black Banjo Reclamation Project (Website)
Fresh, Bold and So Def Symposium at Lincoln Center (Website)
Hip Hop Education Center (Website)
Tray Wellington Band (Website)
Generations with Jonelle Allen and Vivica A. Fox
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Syllabus
Ashley N. Payne (2024), “Hip Hop, identity, & Black girlhood: how Black girls (re)construct racial and gender identity through Hip Hop”
Ashley N. Payne & Aria S. Halliday (2023), a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540253.2023.2235382"...