Kevin Brown's 'Art & Advocacy' highlighted during Freedom Summer 60th anniversary
Ponchatoula native shares digital art that advocates and teaches history
Ponchatoula native and artist Kevin Brown has created a critical presentation, “Art & Advocacy,” as a call to use different art forms as a voice for advocacy. It features his Freedom Summer digital arts series which includes portrayals of civil rights icons Robert Moses, C.C. Bryant, Hollis Watkins, Alyene Quin, Brenda Travis, and E.W. Steptoe
On Feb. 17, he delivered this interactive presentation to students at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, MS, in honor of the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer.
Throughout the presentation, he shared his journey of advocacy and methods he’s used, including visual arts, direct grassroots advocacy work through Gertrude’s Garden-a Burglund community garden, and in literature as the author of I Live On A Street Named St. Augustine and Burglundtown Activity Book.
Brown was also the featured speaker and visual artist guest at the Two Mississippi Museums MLK Night of Culture.
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