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Tiff Beatty: Circles, Cyphers, and Conversations

Event Type
Informational
Sponsor
School of Art + Design Visitors Committee and Frances P. Rohlen Visiting Artists Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts
Location
Krannert Art Museum, Lower Level, Auditorium (KAM 62), 500 E Peabody Dr, Champaign, Illinois 61820
Date
Dec 1, 2022   2:00 pm  
Speaker
Tiff Beatty
Contact
Krannert Art Museum
E-Mail
kam-info@illinois.edu
Phone
12173331861
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Join us for a talk by cultural organizer, arts administrator, performance poet, and host Tiff Beatty, Program Director of Arts, Culture, and Public Policy at the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago. This lecture is presented as part of the exhibition Black on Black on Black on Black.

About the Artist

Tiffanie L. Beatty, better known as Tiff Beatty, develops public and educational programming, as well as diversity and equity initiatives for arts, culture, and humanities institutions.

She is a spoken word poet, conversation moderator, and host of Chicago’s only bonfire cypher, Art Is Bonfire. Beatty is a co-founder of House of the Lorde, a Black feminist arts space, and a featured performer in productions such as The People’s Church of the G.H.E.T.T.O (2019) and Thank the Lorde (2018).

Tiff Beatty was a 2020-2021 Chicago United for Equity Senior Fellow and a recipient of a 2019 Field Leader Award from the Field Foundation. She lives in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood and was born and raised in Tacoma, WA.

Find her on Instagram at @tiff_beatty or see her website TiffBeatty.com.

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