On Thursday, May 25 at 7:30 pm, join acclaimed author and activist Alice Walker in an intimate lecture inspired by her life's work and the exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85. Walker won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for The Color Purple, which was adapted as a movie in 1985 and a Broadway musical in 2005.

 

Member presales begin on April 26 and tickets for general admission will open on May 1. Tickets start at $25 and can be purchased at https://alicewalkerbkm.eventbrite.com.

 

The event will have ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation.

 

This groundbreaking exhibition focuses on the work of more than forty black women artists from an under-recognized generation who committed themselves to activism during a period of profound social change marked by the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, the Women's Movement, the Anti-War Movement, and the Gay Liberation Movement, among others. We Wanted a Revolution presents a wide array of more than two hundred artworks, including conceptual, performance, film, and video art, as well as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking. Part of A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism at the Brooklyn Museum, which celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. The exhibition will be on view from April 21-September 20, 2017.