Honoring the Genius of Lucille Clifton: An IG Live with Sidney Clifton, Executive Director of The Clifton House and Daughter of Lucille Clifton
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Join us for an IG Live with Sidney Clifton, the Executive Director of The Clifton House in Baltimore.
On Monday, February 20th, join us for an IG Live with Sidney Clifton, Emmy-nominated producer, executive director of The Clifton House, and daughter of world renowned poet, Lucille Clifton! Co-hosted by Jaimee Swift and Maryam Pugh, this interview is a part of the Black Feminist Taught Me project, a t-shirt collaboration between Black Women Radicals x Philadelphia PrintWorks. The second collection of the collaboration honors Black feminists in Baltimore and more specifically, honors Lucille Clifton, who lived in Baltimore and was Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1979 to 1985. The conversation will be co-hosted by Jaimee A. Swift, the executive director of Black Women Radicals, and Maryam Pugh, CEO of Philadelphia PrintWorks. Swift and Pugh are co-curators of the Black Feminist Taught Me project.
Learn more about the Baltimore edition of Black Feminist Taught Me.
When: Monday, February 20th
Time: 6:30 PM EST
Where: IG Live @blackwomenradicals
About Sidney Clifton: Emmy-nominated producer Sidney Clifton has over twenty years of experience as an executive producer, director and creative executive overseeing animated, mixed-media and live-action content. She has produced hundreds of hours of episodic and longform content, a partial list can be found at her imdb page here . She currently serves as a producer at The Jim Henson Company and Senior Consultant with Black Women Animate Studios. In her role as mentor and recruiter, she has been a featured presenter and guest at colleges and universities across North America. She was honored to give commencement addresses at Idylwild Arts Academy and Ringling College of Art and Design.
Ms. Clifton’s passion for developing and supporting the underserved community of writers, artists, storytellers and creators was the catalyst for her launching The Clifton House; a writer’s and artist’s workshop and retreat space centered at her childhood home in Baltimore, Maryland—the home she shared with her five siblings and parents, educator/activist Fred J. Clifton and National Book Award winning poet and author Lucille Clifton.