Artist Talk: Jennifer 張 Crandall on "Whitman, Alabama"

Join us for an artist talk by Jennifer 張 Crandall, the director behind "Whitman, Alabama" - a 52-part documentary that blends journalism, poetry and art to offer a portrait of America built one encounter at a time. In this innovative series, 21st-century Alabamians voice lines from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," weaving the words of a Northern poet into Southern lives. The result is a layered and surprising reflection on identity, democracy and belonging.

Crandall's work has been described by the Poetry Foundation as that of "a latter-day Walker Evans or Dorothea Lange," and by Ron Burnett, President Emeritus of Emily Carr University of Art + Design, as "a masterpiece." "Whitman, Alabama" has been embraced nationally as both art and civic resource - used by educators, librarians and community organizers to reanimate conversations around what it means to be American.

More About the Artist:
Jennifer 張 Crandall is an artist, journalist and filmmaker whose work builds relational, democratic forms of storytelling - creating spaces where people come into view and audiences encounter new ways of seeing and listening.

All are welcome! Light refreshments will be served.

Artist Talk: Jennifer 張 Crandall on "Whitman, Alabama"
Monday, September 29 | 7 - 8 p.m.
CDS Auditorium
1317 West Pettigrew Street