Greetings, Classmates! It's time for a brand new episode of ART CLASS and have we got a show for you today! This episode we're talking to two incredible Black women artists who are both blazing exciting new trails in their fields. First up, we talk to Grammy Award-winning singer, activist and friend of the show, Julia Bullock, in advance of her Metropolitan Opera debut tonight in John Adams and Peter Sellars' El Niño (0:16:43). We chat all about how this gorgeous new production is coming together and how to create a more equitable and inclusive future for the next generation of operamakers. After that, Paige is back with another installment of Kinfolk with Gambian kora virtuoso, griot, and founder of The Gambia Academy, Sona Jobarteh (0:49:29). In part one of their chat, Sona gets into what it's been like to gain world-renown playing an instrument traditionally played by men and the inspiration behind her latest album, Badinyaa Kumoo. All that, plus the Morning Announcements with Emile (0:45:26) and a little PBJ to get you through the rest of your week (1:00:18). Take your seats, folks. Class is in session!  Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Mabolé Inawale)Guests: Julia Bullock, Sona JobartehContributor: Emilia MettenbrinkProducer: Rocky Jones--LinksJulia Bullock (Website) (Instagram)Sona Jobarteh (Website) (Instagram)Metropolitan Opera's El Niño: Apr 23-May 17 (Website)Walking in the Dark (Spotify)The Swann (Website)Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (Website)--New episodes of ART CLASS drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. For more info about the show, please visit lincolncenter.org/ArtClass. Email your questions

Happy Tuesday, Classmates! Did you survive all the earthquakes and eclipses?! Oh good, because do we have jam-packed show for you today! First up, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and The New Yorker theater critic Hilton Als, editor of the new book God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin. We chat with Hilton all about the legacy of the legendary James Baldwin and the lessons his life and work can offer us today (0:18:14). After that, stay tuned for part 2 of Paige's Kinfolk conversation with Hannah Mayree of the Black Banjo Reclamation Project (0:45:53). Plus, the Morning Announcements with Emile (0:41:54) and a little Pure Black Joy (1:02:37) to get you to the end of the week. Take your seats, everybody. Class is in session!Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Mabolé Inawale)Guests: Hilton Als, Hannah MayreeContributor: Emilia MettenbrinkProducer: Rocky Jones--LinksHilton Als (Website)God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin (Book) (Exhibition)Black Banjo Reclamation Project (Website)James Baldwin at 100 (Website)Sugar Hill Salon Chamber Music (Website)Ensemble Obiora (Website)--New episodes of ART CLASS drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. For more info about the show, please visit lincolncenter.org/ArtClass. Email your questions or comments to artclasspod@gmail.com.--Thanks to Our Supporters!Major support for Campaign for One Million Kids provided by Leonard and Judy LauderLead support for educational programming is provided by AnonymousMajor support for educational programming is provided by LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and The Walt Disney CompanyAdditional support is provided by Constans

**If you're an Apple Podcast subscriber and you're having audio issues, just re-download, and you should be all good!**Let's get straight to it, Classmates! Today on ART CLASS, we are honored to be talking with a bonafide legend! Whom you ask? How about the ambassador for New Orleans bounce music, who's also an iconic entrepreneur, and a fierce advocate for racial justice and queer rights? Yes, that's right, on this episode we will be chatting with the Queen Diva herself, BIG FREEDIA (0:13:55)!!! 🤯 And as if that weren't exciting enough, we're also bringing you the next installment of our Kinfolk series with Hannah Mayree of the Black Banjo Reclamation Project (0:42:28). In this first conversation of two, Hannah and Paige talk all about BBRP and their mission to reconnect Black people with the banjo, an incredibly important part of our musical and cultural history. All that, plus the Morning Announcements with Emile (0:39:11) and a special PB&J for all you soap opera fans (0:59:14). Take your seats, y'all, because class is in session!***Oh, and if you're in NYC on Wednesday, April 10 at 7:30pm, please come check us out live at Lincoln Center's David Rubenstein Atrium. Rumor has it that we'll be joined by another spectacular, legendary, iconic guest. For more details, go here. We hope you'll come hang out and have some fun with us!***Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Mabolé Inawale)Guests: Big Freedia, Hannah MayreeContributor: Emilia MettenbrinkProducer: Rocky Jones--LinksBig Freedia (Website) (Instagram)Black Banjo Reclamation Project (Website)Fresh, Bold and So Def Symposium at Lincoln Center (Website)Hip Hop Education Center (Website)Tray Wellington Band (Website)Generations with Jonelle Allen and Vivica A. Fox--SyllabusAshley N. Payne (2024), “Hip Hop, identity, & Black girlhood: how Black girls (re)construct racial and gender identity through Hip Hop”Ashley N. Payne & Aria S. Halliday (2023),

Howdy, Classmates! It's time for another episode of your favorite podcast all about decolonizing the arts and arts education, Lincoln Center's ART CLASS! This week, we're talking all about Black folks' contributions to folk and country music, which we're told is very much in the zeitgeist thanks to the queen of everything, Mrs. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles Carter. We'll be joined for a chat by musician, scholar, and all around lovely person, Jake Blount, who takes us through his journey to the heart of Black folk music both on and offstage (0:14:40). Later, we're joined by author and friend of the show, Kao Kalia Yang (0:51:48), for another inspirational Career Day for all you up-and-coming writers. And of course, the Morning Announcements with Emile (0:48:05) and a moment of Pure Black Joy (0:58:09). (Spoiler alert: somebody wrote about us in a book!) So take your seats, y'all, because class is in session!Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Mabolé Inawale)Guests: Jake Blount, Kao Kalia YangContributor: Emilia MettenbrinkProducer: Rocky Jones--Extra CreditTo read more about country and folk music’s Black roots (through a queer and feminist theory framework), check out Francesca T. Royster’s Black Country Music: Listening for Revolutions.--LinksJake Blount (Website) (Insta)Kao Kalia Yang (Website)• Pre-order Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother’s Life now and check out the book release party on 3/19!Raising the...

Good morrow, dear Classmates! For today's episode of ART CLASS, we're thinking about how the art of the future intersects with the art of the present. Have you ever wondered what art will look like in the age of artificial intelligence? Well, so have we, and so has this week's guest: the brilliant artist and scholar, Professor Stephanie Dinkins (0:18:10). Join us for an absolutely fascinating conversation all about the dangers and the limitless possibilities of an AI-generated world as well as insight into her conversations with the world's first Black female robot, BINA48. Later, we're joined for Career Day with playwright C. Quintana (0:57:23). Plus, Morning Announcements with Emile (0:54:28) and a little Pure Black Joy (1:09:08) to get you through to the end of week. Take your seats, because class is in session, y'all!Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Mabolé Inawale)Guests: Stephanie Dinkins, C. QuintanaContributor: Emilia MettenbrinkProducer: Rocky Jones--LinksStephanie Dinkins (Website) (Insta) (Insta)C. Quintana (Website)AiArtists (Website)Revelation: The Ivalas Quartet Performs Music by Women Composers (NYPL)Twin Cities Public Television (Website)--New episodes of ART CLASS drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. For more info about the show, please visit lincolncenter.org/ArtClass. Email your questions or comments to artclasspod@gmail.com.--Thanks to Our Supporters!Major support for Campaign for One Million Kids provided by Leonard and Judy LauderLead support for educational programming is provided by AnonymousMajor support for educational programming is provided by LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and The Walt Disney Company

Happy Black History Month, Classmates! This week's ART CLASS is all about healing and self-care. As Black folks and Black artists especially, it's so easy to over-extend ourselves during the month of February, so this week we devote the first part of the episode to delving into our self-care routines. How does one establish boundaries in a world that doesn't want you to have any? Where does self-care intersect with community care? Then, we're joined by an exceptional guest! Last October, we recorded a live show at Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall, where we were joined by the amazing Jonathan McCrory, Artistic Director of the National Black Theatre, which produced the recent Broadway hit Purlie Victorious starring Leslie Odom, Jr. and Kara Young. We had a powerful conversation all about this incredible piece of theater, its relevance in these times, and what he does to take care of himself (0:26:36). Later, it's time for another installment of Career Day with choreographer, Jennifer Lisette Lopez (0:53:51). Plus, the Morning Announcements with Emile (0:50:55) and a little Pure Black Joy (1:02:02) to get you through the week. Please take your seats, because class is back in session!--Hosts: Lee Bynum (Insta), Rocky Jones (Insta), Paige Reynolds (Insta)Guests: Jonathan McCrory, Jennifer Lisette LopezContributor: Emilia MettenbrinkProducer: Rocky Jones--LinksJonathan McCrory (Website) (Insta)National Black Theatre (Website)Purlie Victorious (Website) (Buy the Play)The Gathering at The Kennedy Center (Tickets)The Roll Call: The Roots to Strange Fruit (Stream Now)Julliard Presents Erismena (Tickets)Living All Alone (Tickets)National Theatre at Home (Stream Now)--New episodes of ART CLASS drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please...

Welcome back, Classmates! And thank you so much for joining us for episode 2 of Lincoln Center's ART CLASS! This week is all about preserving the legacy of Black art and culture, specifically Black music. COVID-19 and the murder of George Floyd in 2020 brought about a racial reckoning here in the US, the likes of which hadn't been seen in decades. In 2024, however, with the conservative backlash against progressive ideals and initiatives like Critical Race Theory and DEI gaining momentum in many places, it seems the pendulum has swung hard back in the other direction. This week, we talk with two scholars and artists working tirelessly to keep Black stories, Black culture, and Black art at the forefront of the national imagination. First, we chat with Dr. Michael C. Mason, PhD the first chair of the new Africana Studies Department at the Berklee College of Music, all about the creation of this exciting new program at one of the most prestigious music schools in the country (0:26:37). And later, Paige sits down with Christopher Fuller, the creator of the Black Music Project, for the first installment of their series, Kinfolk (0:57:49). They talk all about how this invaluable repository of Black history and art came to be and make the case that the story of Black music is the story of American music. All that plus, the Morning Announcements with Emile (0:54:52) and a bit of Pure Black Joy (1:32:06) to get you through the rest of the week. Class is in session, y'all!--Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige ReynoldsGuests: Christopher Fuller, Dr. Michael C. MasonContributor: Emilia MettenbrinkProducer: Rocky Jones--LinksAfricana Studies at Berklee College of Music (Website) (Insta)Black Music Project (Website)Josh Evans Big Band: Music of the Diaspora (Tickets)Border Crossings Gallery Tour (NYPL.org)--Reading ListIf you're interested in learning more about the topics discussed today, here are some resources we recommend:Collins, Patricia Hill. Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory. Durham: Duke UP, 2019.Crenshaw, Kimberlé. On Intersectionality: Essential Writings. The New Press: New York, 2017.Katznelson, Ira. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-century America. W. W. Norton & Company: New York, 2005.Muhammad, Khalil Gibran. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Harvard UP: Cambridge, 2010.--New episodes of ART CLASS drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. For more info about the show, please visit

What's up, Classmates?! Class is officially in session! Welcome to the first episode of Lincoln Center's new podcast, ART CLASS, a provocative, thoughtful and often humorous podcast all about art and artists creating at the intersection of beauty and innovation. This week, hosts Lee Bynum, Paige Reynolds, and Rocky Jones are joined by author, activist, and multi-disciplinary artist Junauda Petrus, whose novel The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, has appeared on multiple banned books lists in the past few years (0:22:33). We talk art and censorship, other influential, inspirational artists who have also showed up on banned book lists, and how Junauda's West Indian ancestry influences her life and work. Later, we're joined for "Career Day" by Nathan Horowitz, who gives us behind-the-scenes peek at a day in the life of a Hollywood stunt performer (1:03:46). Plus, contributor Emilia Mettenbrink brings us the "Morning Announcements," a list of live and virtual arts offerings that we think you might want to check out (1:00:52). And, as always, we end with a moment of PBJ aka Pure Black Joy, a weekly little snack for your soul that highlights the Black people, culture, and art that are making us happy this week (01:12:03). Let's do it to it, y'all.--Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige ReynoldsGuests: Junauda Petrus, Nathan HorowitzContributor: Emilia MettenbrinkProducer: Rocky Jones--LinksJunauda Petrus (Website) (Instagram)Seen, Sound, Scribe (lincolncenter.org)Spectral Evidence: Gregory Pardlo with Imani Perry (nypl.org)Antonia Hylton + Craig Melvin: Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum (strandbooks.com)The Black Joy Project by Kleaver Cruz (HarperCollins)Legacy of Orisha Series by Tomi Adeyemi (MacMillan)--New episodes of ART CLASS drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. For more info about the show, please visit lincolncenter.org/ArtClass. Email your questions or comments to artclasspod@gmail.com.--Thanks to Our Supporters!

The first episode of Art Class debuts on January 16, 2024! Subscribe now at the links below!Welcome, classmates! Art Class is Lincoln Center’s new biweekly podcast focusing on the latest in arts education, hosted by Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Iya Mabolé Inawale), and Dr. Lee Bynum, Chief Education Officer of Lincoln Center. They’re three Black, queer artists, culturistas, and arts administrators who are passionate about composing a future of artmaking and arts education that creates more joy for more people more of the time. Each episode features news, stories, and interviews that seek to amplify the voices of artists creating at the intersection of beauty and innovation in fields like dance, opera, film and TV, architecture, theater, visual arts, drag, and more. Select episodes also feature a special series entitled "Kinfolk," lead by Paige, that explores the connections between the artistic and cultural traditions of peoples across the Black/African diaspora. Starting January 16, 2024, we hope you’ll join us every other Tuesday for a provocative, thoughtful, and often irreverent look into the arts industry’s past, present and future.Class is in session! We hope to see you there.You can subscribe to ART CLASS wherever fine podcasts are aggregated, such as:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/art-class/id1721941273Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2EZH1c4iX97tyFgtrGXDTSAmazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/2f95482a-9595-4fa8-b749-58dc3c78a69d/art-classGoogle: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5jYXB0aXZhdGUuZm0vYXJ0LWNsYXNzLwVisit our page at LincolnCenter.org for more information and be sure to listen, subscribe, leave a 5-star review and tell your friends! If you'd to reach out, you can drop us a line at artclasspod@gmail.com. Thanks for listening!Thanks to Our SupportersMajor support for Campaign for One Million Kids provided by Leonard and Judy LauderLead support for educational programming is provided by AnonymousMajor support for educational programming is provided by LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and The Walt Disney CompanyAdditional support is provided by Constans Culver Foundation, NBCUniversal, the Richmond County Savings Foundation, Alice L. Walton Foundation, the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, the Theodore H. Barth Foundation, The Katz Family Charitable Lead Trust, Tom and Musa Mayer, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Giants Foundation, Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc., William Sherman, trustee for the Murray G. and Beatrice H. Sherman Charitable TrustEducational programming is made possible, in part, with public support facilitated by New York City Council Members Julie Menin and Keith Powers