Broadcast Listening
BLUES U: THINKIN’ BLUES
Organized by Tulsa Artist Fellow kara lynch
Co-Presented with the African American Resource Center at Rudisill Regional Library
Thursday, December 8, 2022 | 5-7pm
High School and Adult Audience
Rudisill Regional Library
1520 N. Hartford Ave., Tulsa, OK
Tulsa Artist Fellowship programming is free and open to all
In the spirit of the 1960s Freedom Schools, Blues U: Thinkin' Blues and the African American Resource Center bring you this Black culture pop-up study guide. Thinking Blues is an open source lesson plan that highlights the transformative power of Black and Indigenous culture through the blues. The listening and reading/study station located in the African American Resource Center welcomes you to come listen to music and audio books or read books, articles and digital content selected from the library collection. Together we will explore vibrant Black artistic, social and political forms of expression!
The AARC jukebox and CD/media players are available in order to listen to CDs from the collection and archives of the Blues U radio show. Visitors are encouraged to borrow laptops to browse digital content as well. Accompanying the listening/study station will be an informational pamphlet and series of bookmarks with sample reading, listening and viewing guides, and prompts for further exploration, each with links and QR codes to connect you to the digital content.
kara lynch is a time-based artist living in the bronx, ny - born in the momentous year of 1968. Ambivalent towards hyper-visual culture, through low-fi, collective practice and social intervention lynch explores aesthetic/political relationships between time + space. Her work is vigilantly raced, classed, and gendered - Black, queer and feminist. kara completed her MFA in Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego and has been a research fellow in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department, University of Texas, Austin and the Academy for Advanced African Studies at Bayreuth University in Germany. She earns a living as an Associate Professor of Video and Critical Studies at Hampshire College. Major projects include: 'Black Russians' - a feature documentary video, ‘The Outing’ - a video travelogue, ‘Mouhawala Oula’ - a gender-bending trio performance for oriental dance, live video, and saxophone, and the current project 'INVISIBLE’, an episodic, speculative, multi-site video/audio installation - excavates the terror and resilient beauty of Black experience.
With the belief that arts are critical to the advancement of cultural citizenship, Tulsa Artist Fellowship supports artists and arts workers in the heart of Oklahoma’s Green Country. Socially invested artistic practitioners live and work here, intentionally engaging with our city. Tulsa Artist Fellowship is a George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF) cultural initiative.
VISITOR EXPERIENCE x RUDISILL REGIONAL LIBRARY
For questions about health and safety protocols, accessibility, to request an accommodation, or share feedback, please contact Rudisill Regional Library, https://www.tulsalibrary.org/locations/rudisill