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IMA graduate Seyi Adebanjo facilitating the James Baldwin’s America series

Photo of James BaldwinIMA graduate and Bronx-based artist Seyi Adebanjo is facilitating the James Baldwin’s America five part reading and discussion series presented by Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance! (BAAD!).

The series delves into the work of acclaimed writer and public intellectual James Baldwin who spoke about the tense relationship between America’s democratic ideals and our fraught racial history.

Mondays, February 1st – 29th at 6pm.
Free

Congrats to IMA alumna Melissa Saucedo González!

Melissa Saucedo González has been selected by Hunter College for special recognition at Hunter’s commencement ceremony on January 21st. She was nominated by Reiko Tahara, who provided Melissa with crucial guidance when she began exploring issues of pre-partum depression first in writing and then in what would become her moving thesis film, “Before David.” Melissa thanks her Professors: Reiko Tahara, Kelly Anderson and Andrew Lund for their support and guidance on her thesis.