YPC Diversity Speaker Series with BUP and the Des Moines Metro Opera
Name:
YPC Diversity Speaker Series with BUP and the Des Moines Metro Opera
Date:
July 20, 2022
Time:
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM CDT
Registration:
Sorry, public registration for this event has been closed.
Event Description:
YPC is partnering with Black Urban Professionals (an initiative of The Director’s Council) on another opportunity for young professionals across the metro. This opportunity allows professionals to attend the opening night, preview of the Des Moines Metro Opera’s, American Apollo.
Learn the important story of Thomas Eugene McKeller, a Black model who served as inspiration for the famous portraitist, John Singer Sargent. McKeller posed for most of the figures in Sargent's murals at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, but the painter transformed McKeller's figure into white gods and goddesses, creating soaring allegories of the liberal arts that celebrated the recent expansion of the city's premier civic museum. Themes of erasure, the white gaze, and the nature of the relationship between the two men are explored in this powerful new work.
For a reduced ticket price you get the chance to enjoy a short performance, discussion, and lecture with Gardner curator Dr. Nathaniel Silver and a post-show reception with food and drinks to allow for networking between young professionals, opera patrons, and business leaders. Seating is limited so be sure to sign up right away!
Learn the important story of Thomas Eugene McKeller, a Black model who served as inspiration for the famous portraitist, John Singer Sargent. McKeller posed for most of the figures in Sargent's murals at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, but the painter transformed McKeller's figure into white gods and goddesses, creating soaring allegories of the liberal arts that celebrated the recent expansion of the city's premier civic museum. Themes of erasure, the white gaze, and the nature of the relationship between the two men are explored in this powerful new work.
For a reduced ticket price you get the chance to enjoy a short performance, discussion, and lecture with Gardner curator Dr. Nathaniel Silver and a post-show reception with food and drinks to allow for networking between young professionals, opera patrons, and business leaders. Seating is limited so be sure to sign up right away!
