from a symposium to a podcast & arts festival…Hurston and Honduras

It’s been a great autumn. The leaves are falling. I just picked the last colorful bouquet of flowers from our yard. And I am watching my book on writer-anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston’s 1947–48 sojourn in Honduras go out into the world.

Seeing the positive reception has been a great experience. It’s been more than a month since I presented at the University of Miami’s Center for Black Global Studies’ Still Here: Generations of Black Art Making Symposium. What a humbling and joyous event. I met some beautiful and generous souls, among them, artists, scholars, curators and others. Listen to my keynote address there by pressing this link.

Last week, Dr. Reighan Gillam, an anthropologist at Dartmouth, generously interviewed me. Listen to her podcast on New Books Network by pressing this link here.

Finally, I will share art pieces inspired by Hurston’s time in Eau Gallie, Florida, part of present-day Melbourne, at the Artworks of Eau Gallie Arts Festival November 18–19. See some of my pieces are below. I work with found wood, vintage amp parts and reproductions of vintage photographs.

For more about me and my art, a key way I decompress from my duties as a History professor, visit this link.

If nothing else, please pick up my book on Hurston in Honduras! See upcoming events in which I am participating by visiting this link! Indeed, Pittsburgh, Ft. Lauderdale and Atlanta, here, I come.