Mar 21 2019
Carrie Mae Weems & Claudia Rankine

Carrie Mae Weems & Claudia Rankine

Presented by Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures at Carnegie Lecture Hall

MacArthur Foundation fellows Claudia Rankine and Carrie Mae Weems are featured together as part of our free Poets Aloud series, in partnership with the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics of the University of Pittsburgh. Rankine won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her New York Times bestselling book of poetry, Citizen: An American Lyric. Visual artist Weems is represented in museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and The Tate Modern, London. Join us for a presentation from both Claudia Rankine and Carrie Mae Weems, followed by discussion between the two artists.

Through photography and video, Carrie Mae Weems has created a complex body of art that investigates family relationships, gender roles, racism, classism, and politics. Although Weems addresses a wide array of issues, in all the work her overarching commitment is to help us better understand our present moment by examining our collective past.

Claudia Rankine is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely; two plays including Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue; numerous video collaborations, and is the editor of several anthologies including The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry.

Admission Info

This event is free, with registration.

Phone: 412.622.8866

Email: info@pittsburghlectures.org

Dates & Times

2019/03/21 - 2019/03/21

Additional time info:

Books will be available for sale from our local bookseller Classic Lines.

Location Info

Carnegie Lecture Hall

4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Parking Info

Pay Parking
Parking for the Carnegie Music Hall and the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall is available at the Carnegie Museums in Oakland.
The museum operates a six-level parking facility for cars and small vans. The entrance is located at the intersection of S. Craig Street and Forbes Avenue.
Parking for most events is $6 for the whole evening. Pay stations that take credit cards are located at the exit gates, in the Carnegie Museum of Art (near the Carnegie Cafe’s first floor restrooms), and in the Portal Entry.
For Ten Evenings the parking is cash-only, pay upon entry, to ease the traffic flow when leaving the lecture.
Free Parking
There is free street parking in the City of Pittsburgh after 6 p.m. Please note that this does not apply to private lots, such as the ones owned by CMU.
You can check the on-street parking meters to confirm that you are in a location where parking is free after 6 p.m.

Accessibility Info

To ensure we can accommodate your request, please identify any accessibility needs via phone or email prior to the lecture.