An Evening with
Ashley Bryan
Renowned Artist, Poet, Storyteller, and Humanitarian
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Join Ashley Bryan for a viewing of a documentary about his life and work, followed by a Q & A session with Bryan, Nichols Clark, founding executive director of the Ashley Bryan Center, and Daniel Lief, of the Center’s Board of Directors.
Ashley Bryan is the author and illustrator of over forty children’s books, including Beautiful Blackbird (2003), perhaps his best known book, winner of the 2004 Coretta Scott King Award, and more recently the powerful Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan (2016), based on original slavery documents acquired by Bryan.
Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, sixth floor
3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm
Saturday and Sunday, by prior arrangement (215.898.7088 or kislak@pobox.upenn.edu)
Free and open to the public (please show photo ID at entrance).