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Using Art to Reflect and Create Community
Film screening of “I Know a Man…Ashley Bryan” followed by discussion with filmmakers
Wednesday Oct. 25 at 4:30 PM
Rockefeller Center Room 003

A new documentary I Know a Man ... Ashley Bryan is said by some to be an antidote to the hatred, racism and division that our country is experiencing today.  The film is about this 94-year-old creative wonder who skips and jumps in his heart like a child.  Born in Harlem and raised in the Bronx, Ashley’s talent was nurtured by artist Romare Bearden.  Ashley was drafted out of Cooper Union into the segregated US army at age 19. He served in an all-Black battalion during World War II and preserved his humanity by drawing, stowing supplies in his gas mask. A retired Dartmouth studio art professor, Ashley now lives on the remote Cranberry Islands, Maine, and has been using art his entire life to celebrate joy, mediate the darkness of war and racism, explore the mysteries of faith, and create loving community.

Sponsored by the Office of Institutional Diversity & Equity.