Our 70th Season:
When We Were Young and Unafraid • Sarah Treem
November 6 - December 13
In the early 1970s, before Roe v. Wade, before the Violence Against Women Act, Agnes has turned her quiet bed and breakfast into one of the few spots where victims of domestic violence can seek refuge. Looking for art by and featuring women.
Purpose • Braden Jacobs-Jenkins
January 8 - March 14
For decades, the influential Jasper family has been a pillar of Black American Politics: civil rights leaders, pastors and congressmen. But like all families, there are cracks and secrets just under the surface. When the youngest son Nazareth returns home to Illinois with an uninvited friend in tow, the family is forced into a reckoning with itself, its faith and the legacies of Black radicalism. Landscapes and nature focused art.
Rodeo Clown • Will Street
April 2 - May 2
Depressed and closeted from his bible thumping parents, 25 year-old Jonah Moody is thinking about ending it all when his high school sweetheart shows up in the nick of time. While his ex tries to help him see the positive, an ad for rodeo clown school streams in the background and Jonah sees a chance for a different kind of re-invention. He leaves Detroit for a little town called Death, Texas hoping to conquer his fears while facing down thousand pound bulls. Art by black and queer artists.
Seven Guitars • August Wilson
May 29 - June 28
In the backyard of a Pittsburgh tenement in 1948, friends gather to mourn a blues guitarist and singer who died just as his career was on the verge of taking off. The sixth in the author's American Century Cycle, a decade-by-decade exploration of the Black experience in America, Seven Guitars is part bawdy comedy, part dark elegy, and part mystery. Visual art with a musical focus.