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Mari Evans' "Ethos and Creativity" Three Decades Later: Art and Race in Indianapolis

Presented by IUPUI - Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and Indiana Humanities and IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute at Basile Auditorium, Eskenazi Hall, Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI, Indianapolis IN

Mar 08 2018
Mari Evans'

A public conversation with five local artists about art and race in Indianapolis and the continuing relevance of Mari Evans’ 1989 essay, “Ethos and Creativity.”

Mari Evans’ “Ethos and Creativity,” which was commissioned by the Indiana Humanities Council and originally appeared in the collection Where We Live: Essay about Indiana (edited by David Hoppe, Indiana University Press, 1989), examined Ethos as a shaping matrix for creativity, which is the response of the human spirit to the variety of its experiences. In Indianapolis, Evans observed an Ethos of trauma and stress for Black people, and any creative response was “not empowered or enabled to ... view more »

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Basile Auditorium, Eskenazi Hall, Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI

735 West New York Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202

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