The Harlem Renaissance Ball
Step back in time as you enter the Campus Center Auditorium to relive the era know as the Harlem Renaissance.
Celebrating the Harlem Renaissance
“The Harlem Renaissance” was the explosion of expressive talent among African Americans in the period 1920-1940. During these two decades African American artists in music, painting, sculpture and literature experienced artistic success and audience popularity at unprecedented levels. Though the term associates the phenomenon with New York City’s Harlem neighborhood, the artistic renaissance also affected other cities with large African American populations – Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Boston, for example. Many of the most famous names in the history of African American and American art, music and literature came to prominence during this period: Langston Hughes, James P. Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas, Duke Ellington, Dorothy West, Jacob Lawrence, Fats Waller, Augusta Savage.
Tonight’s event seeks to celebrate the brilliance of the period’s artistic achievement as one way to mark Black History Month here on our campus where daily one can encounter –and come to appreciate—the aesthetic contributions of many cultures and traditions to our world. We hope this evening will inaugurate a series of annual dinner-dances celebrating African American heritage with
Come celebrate Black History Month in style!