Interactive Lecture with Moderator: Learn more from artist Jimmy James Green as moderator Norma Cunningham moderates this interactive lecture about art and the African American experience.

Jimmy James Greene is a well-known artist and educator from New York City and the featured Artist for Vision and Sound 2018. His work has been shown in over thirty one-person exhibitions and innumerable group showings. As a commercial artist he has theater posters, CD covers, newspaper, magazine and book cover illustrations to his credit. One of his well-known public works is The Children's Cathedral mural commissioned by the N.Y. Transit Authority at Utica Avenue Subway Station in Brooklyn, NY. Since his childhood in Xenia, Ohio, Jimmy James Greene has shown exceptional artistic ability. After apprenticing with acclaimed afro-centric muralist Jon Onye Lockard in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Greene graduated from The Rhode Island School of Design. Since then he has gone on to become an accomplished collagist, painter, draftsman and designer who also works with stained glass, print making and mosaic tile. For the past twenty-five years his work has explored the communal expressions of the African Diaspora in general, and those of the African-American experience. “I see myself as a visual story teller,” says Greene. “The styles I use range from tight representation to abstracted forms, depending upon my intent, but the bottom line is communication. Ideally my work will act as a springboard for the viewer into their own imagination, their own experiences, memories and aspirations.”