This week, Festival Director Anne Morris continues a conversation with four Greensboro-based artists: Princess Howell Johnson, Milanda McGinnis, April Parker, and Alexandra Joye Warren. In this 2-part conversation, these four women have an honest discussion on what is needed locally and nationally for Black artists to thrive, and the structural barriers that Black artists have faced and continue to confront and overcome. In the second part of the conversation, we discuss the impact that repeated rejection from funding or presenting structures can have on mental health, the ripple effects of being unapologetically true to your authentic self, and practical suggestions to predominantly white-led organizations for sharing resources and taking a step back so Black-led organizations can rise.

"In Process" is sponsored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's Performing Arts Medicine Clinic: WakeHealth.edu/PerformingArtsMed

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Part 1 of this conversation.

SoulFlower Wellness/Milanda McGinnis

Podcast: Girl You Ain’t Crazy

Joyemovement Dance Company/ Alexandra Joye Warren

Royal Expressions/Princess Johnson

Elsewhere Museum/April Parker

Black Creatives Revival: May 20-22

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