Celebrate Dunbar! Partners
Arts Center Foundation
Central State University
Dayton Assn. for the Study of
African American Life & History
Dayton Aviation Heritage
National Historical Park
Dayton Contemporary
Dance Company
Dayton Opera Association
Doris L. Allen Minority Caucus of
the Dayton Educ. Assn.
Dream Keeper Theatre Company
Dunbar House
Ebonnia Gallery
Muse Machine
National Afro-American Museum
and Cultural Center
Paul Laurence Dunbar
High School
Reggie Evans, composer
Sinclair Community College
University of Dayton
Victoria Theatre Association
Wright Dunbar Inc.
Wright State University
(August 24, 2006)
CONTEMPORARY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR PHOTOGRAPHS ON DISPLAY IN ROESCH LIBRARY GALLERY
''Black and White: Contemporary Photographic Interpretations of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Poetry,'' will be on display in the first-floor gallery of the University of Dayton's Roesch Library through Oct. 5.
The exhibition focuses on books published during Dunbar’s lifetime that were illustrated with photographs portraying the African-American characters described in the poems. These photos were taken by students and faculty of the Hampton Institute, a Virginia school founded shortly after Emancipation to help prepare former slaves to find employment.
A reception and lecture in the gallery will take place at 4 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 29, featuring Ray Sapirstein, an authority on Dunbar’s collaboration with the Hampton Institute in the production of these illustrated books.
The six illustrated books on display (many of them first editions published between 1899 and 1906) and reproductions of their decorative covers are mounted on the gallery walls. Also in the gallery are enlargements of selected poems and the photographs that accompany them.
The exhibition is free and open to the public and can be viewed during regular library hours. For more information, call 937-229-4270 or visit http://library.udayton.edu/.
