Heroes and Heroines of the Harlem Renaissance: An Experiment in Collective Inquiry

Session Type: Off-Site Visit

Abstract

This off-site interactive session in aesthetic inquiry will involve participants being escorted via subway by the presenters from the conference site to the 125th street station platform to view Faith Ringgold’s mosaic mural Flying Home: Harlem Heroes and Heroines (Downtown and Uptown). This will be followed by a visit to the nearby home of the poet Langston Hughes for a poetry workshop.

Participants will engage with the mural in a process of aesthetic inquiry (Greene), followed by an experience in ekphrastic poetic inquiry (White) as they explore their various interactions with Harlem in the past and in the present by reading, writing and sharing poems in the home of one of the most beloved poets of the Harlem Renaissance.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Arts and Inquiry in the Visual and Performing Arts in Education

Visit Leaders

• Michael C. Gillespie, Borough of Manhattan Community College - CUNY

• Holly C. Fairbank, The Maxine Greene Institute

Papers

• Heroes and Heroines of the Harlem Renaissance: An Experiment in Collective Poetic Inquiry - Holly C. Fairbank, The Maxine Greene Institute

• Heroes and Heroines of the Harlem Renaissance: An Experiment in Collective Poetic Inquiry - Amanda Nicole Gulla, Lehman College - CUNY