Trapeta B. Mayson and Yolanda Wisher Teach a Toni Morrison Course

Artist News
February 3, 2020

Trapeta B. Mayson (ACG '14, LTA '07) and Yolanda Wisher (LTA '19, WOO '18, ACG '08) will teach a Toni Morrison course at the Rosenbach Museum & Library from February 22 - May 16. This course will explore counternarratives of trauma and healing in Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved as well as three novels by Black women writers influenced by Morrison’s life and work: The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara, Corregidora by Gayl Jones, and Meridian by Alice Walker. 

To register and learn more visit here.

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Yolanda Wisher

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Trapeta B. Mayson

Philadelphia
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