The Joslyn Castle & Gardens and Metropolitan Community College are partnering once again for the Art & Literary Festival. This year will be a celebration and exploration of one of the most electrifying and influential moments in American history, the Harlem Renaissance. In the 1920’s, in African American communities in New York City and in cities throughout the North and Midwest, creative and intellectual life thrived.

Before a separately-ticketed performance of a dramatized reading on November 14, Peggy Jones will give an art history lecture. A ticket is required for this free lecture.

To purchase performance tickets, reserve free lecture tickets, and view more information about the full schedule of festival events, visit the festival website: https://www.joslyncastle.com/event/art-literary-festival-the-harlem-renaissance/.

Peggy Jones, M.F.A. (UNL ’93-Painting/Printmaking) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and affiliate faculty in both Women’s and Gender Studies and Medical Humanities at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). She is an artist and playwright who has won awards for both her visual art and writing. She received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council for her play, The Journey, about Aaron Douglas, the first black graduate from the art department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1922. Her most recent play about Black radical feminist Florynce Kennedy was performed in January 2018 at the Union for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE. She is also in the Speaker’s Bureau of Humanities Nebraska on the topic, Aaron Douglas, UNL ’22.