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Name: Public Lecture: Letha Wilson
Start: 2025-10-30T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-30T19:30:00-04:00
Location: deSalle Auditorium

Lecture: Jovencio de la Paz - CANCELED

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Lecture: Jeanne Vaccaro (Virtual)

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Lecture: Farid Rakun, Marnie Briggs, and Coco (Webinar)

From Jakarta to NYC via Cranbrook: on ruangrupa and Art Workers’ Inquiry Farid Rakun (CAA Architecture, 2013) of ruangrupa (currently providing the artistic direction for the ...

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Knoll Lecture: Steven Haulenbeek

Each year, through the generosity of an endowment from Knoll International, the Knoll Lecture Series at Cranbrook Academy of Art brings a renowned designer to ...

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Lecture: Ahmed Ansari

Ahmed Ansari is an Industry Assistant Professor at New York University at the Integrated Digital Media program in the department of Technology, Culture & Society, ...

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Swanson Lecture: Peggy Deamer (Virtual)

Peggy Deamer Architecture Beyond Capitalism This talk will examine how the discipline of architecture can move beyond its current principle function - decorating developers' (or ...

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Lecture: Harry Dodge

Ecstatic Contamination: Notes on Seepage as Form In this artist talk, Harry Dodge uses Édouard Glissant’s phrase “I change, and I exchange” (from Poetics of ...

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Lecture: Laura Plageman

Laura Plageman transforms her photographs through image layering and collage to reflect an experiential view of nature and explore contemporary issues in landscape and photography. ...

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Lecture: Miriam Peterson and Nathan Rich of Peterson Rich Office (PRO)

Join us for a free, public lecture with Miriam Peterson and Nathan Rich of Peterson Rich Office. Peterson Rich Office specializes in cultural projects, especially ...

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Lecture: Kelefa Sanneh

Break-Up Songs: How Popular Music Got So Divisive People love to talk about how popular music transcends boundaries and brings people together. I'm not so ...

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Lecture: Torkwase Dyson

Join us on April 12, at 6pm for a free public lecture from Torkwase Dyson. This lecture will be presented in person at the deSalle ...

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Lecture: Dr. Sue Black

If I Can Do It, So Can You Join us for a free, public lecture from Professor Sue Black OBE at deSalle Auditorium, hosted by ...

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Lecture: Kim Cridler

Join us for a free public lecture from Visiting Artist Kim Cridler. Cridler will present her work in metals and the models that have shaped ...

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Fiber Art as Activism on the US/Mexico Border Fiber-centered interventions through: performance, site-specific installation, community based collaborations, and object making have helped Tanya Aguiñiga and ...

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Detroit Month of Design: Book Launch! My Robot Gets Me: How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human

Come celebrate the first in-person launch of the head of 4D Design at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Carla Diana's UX-focused product design book, My Robot ...

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Lecture: Caveh Zahedi - Failure and Spirituality

Join us in the deSalle Auditorium for a free, public lecture from Visiting Filmmaker, Caveh Zahedi. In his lecture, Failure and Spirituality, Zahedi will about ...

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Lecture: Daniel Bozhkov

Daniel Bozhkov Join us on October 27, 2022, at 6pm for a free, public lecture from Visiting Artist, Daniel Bozhkov. Please enter the deSalle auditorium ...

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Lecture: Derek Fordjour

Derek Fordjour Join us on November 2, 2022, at 6pm for a free, public lecture from Visiting Artist, Derek Fordjour. Please enter the deSalle auditorium ...

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Lecture: Jovencio de la Paz

Jovencio de la Paz Jovencio de la Paz will discuss their work at the intersection of weaving and digital technology. Referencing the histories of computation, ...

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Lecture: Matias del Campo - Neural Architecture - Design and Artificial Intelligence

Matias del Campo Join us in the deSalle Auditorium for a free, public lecture from Visiting Professor and Author, Matias del Campo. Please enter the ...

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Lecture: Carolina Caycedo - From the Bottom of the River

Carolina Caycedo Join us in the deSalle Auditorium for a free, public lecture from Visiting Artist, Carolina Caycedo. Please enter the deSalle auditorium through the ...

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Artist Talk: James Benjamin Franklin in Conversation with Beverly Fishman

James Benjamin Franklin, Sum, 2022. James Benjamin Franklin (MFA Painting 2017) is joined in conversation by Beverly Fishman who was Artist-in-Residence and Head of the ...

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Visiting Artist Lecture: Diana Al-Hadid

Join us at deSalle Auditorium for a free, public lecture from artist Diana Al-Hadid. Al-Hadid was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1981 and currently lives ...

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Visiting Artist Lecture: Catalina Ouyang

Catalina Ouyang Join us at deSalle Auditorium for a free, public lecture from artist Catalina Ouyang. Ouyang will present an overview of their interdisciplinary projects ...

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Visiting Artist Lecture: Will Wilson - The Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange

The Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange Join us at deSalle Auditorium for a free, public lecture from Visiting Artist Will Wilson. Wilson will survey his work ...

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Visiting Artist Lecture - Allana Clarke

Allana Clarke Join us for a free, public lecture from Visiting Artist Allan Clarke who will discuss her practice and work. Allana Clarke (b. 1987) ...

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Knoll Lecture in Design: Jonathan Olivares

Jonathan Olivares Join us on Wednesday, March 22 for the 2023 Annual Knoll Lecture in Design. This year's lecture will be presented by Jonathan Olivares, ...

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Visiting Artist Lecture: Nicki Green - Bodies, Bodies, Bodies

Nicki Green - Bodies, Bodies, Bodies Join us at deSalle Auditorium for a free, public lecture from Visiting Artist Nicki Green. Green will explore her ...

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2023 Annual Swanson Lecture: Mel Dodd - Between the Built and the Lived

Mel Dodd Join us on Monday, April 10 for the 2023 Annual Swanson Lecture. This year’s lecture will be presented by Mel Dodd. The lecture ...

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Cranbrook Conversations: Curtis Chin

Join us for a screening of the award-winning film Dear Corky (run time 18 minutes) by producer, director, actor, and author Curtis Chin, followed by ...

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Critical Studies Lecture: Laura Gutiérrez "Nao Bustamante’s Artistic Re-imaginings"

Nao Bustamante Installation, Marfa. Nao Bustamante is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is very much rooted in deep research, whether this be archival or otherwise. ...

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Visiting Artist Lecture: Michael Lim -Sculptorly Sculpture?

Michael Lim Join Cranbrook Academy of Art at deSalle Auditorium for a free, public lecture from Visiting Artist Michael Lim. Please enter through the Cranbrook ...

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Visiting Artist Lecture: Gordon Hall

Gordon Hall, Brothers and Sisters. Join us at the deSalle Auditorium for a free public lecture from artist, Gordon Hall. Hall will present a slide ...

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Visiting Artist Lecture: Patrice Renee Washington

Patrice Renee Washington Join us at deSalle Auditorium for a free, public lecture from Visiting Artist Patrice Renee Washington. Washington will present a slide lecture of ...

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Lecture: Namita Wiggers - Knowledge is a Shifting Form: Japanese Craft at the Core of Modern Sculpture

Namita Wiggers Knowledge is a Shifting Form: Japanese Craft at the Core of Modern Sculpture Join us for a free, public lecture from writer, curator, ...

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Artist-in-Residence Panel Discussion: Ceramics, Painting, Photography, Sculpture.

Join us for a free, public panel discussion in the deSalle Auditorium featuring Cranbrook Academy of Art's Artists-in-Residence moderated by Michael Stone-Richards, Dean of Programs ...

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Public Lecture: Kevin Henry - Visualizing Futures

Kevin Henry Sketches ‘externalize thought’ according to cognitive scientist and author, Barbara Tversky (Mind in Motion), “...it’s true for graphics of all forms, sketches, charts, ...

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Public Lecture: Risa Puleo - Undoing is a Kind of Doing: 2023 Counterpublic Triennial and the Mound History of the Midwest

Risa Puleo contextualizes her curatorial contributions to the 2023 Counterpublic Triennial in St. Louis within the past, present, and potential futures of the mound structures ...

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Artist-in-Residence Panel Discussion: 3D Design, 4D Design, Architecture, Fiber

Join us for a free, public panel discussion in the deSalle Auditorium featuring Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Artists-in-Residence moderated by Michael Stone-Richards, Dean of Programs ...

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Public Lecture: Lan Tuazon - Future Fossils

Lan Tuazon Lan Tuazon will present her current project, Future Fossils which is based on the 2014 New York Times announcement of the new geological ...

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Artist-in-Residence Panel Discussion: 2D Design, Metalsmithing, Print Media

Join us for a free, public panel discussion in the deSalle Auditorium featuring Cranbrook Academy of Art’s Artists-in-Residence moderated by Michael Stone-Richards, Dean of Programs ...

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Public Lecture: Norman Teague - Quiet Storm

Join us for a public lecture from Visiting Artist Norman Teague. Teague investigates speculation, both the practice and the art of what it means to ...

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Public Lecture: Janny Baek

PANORAMA : 02/15/2023 : New York, NY: ceramics artist Janny Baek shot in her studio on west 27th street Janny Baek is an artist and ...

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Public Lecture: Hamza Walker - Thinking About MONUMENTS

Since 2017, Walker has been working on MONUMENTS, an exhibition that features roughly a dozen decommissioned monuments to be shown alongside works of contemporary art. ...

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Public Lecture: Simone ten Hompel

Simone ten Hompel with Cranbrook Academy of Art Metalsmithing students during a workshop in November 2023. Cranbrook Academy of Art’s 2023-24 Public Lecture Series is ...

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Public Lecture: Cannupa Hanska Luger

Cannupa Hanska Luger. Photo: Reece Martinez. Cranbrook Academy of Art’s 2023-24 Public Lecture Series is free and open to the public in the deSalle Auditorium ...

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Public Lecture: Yolande Daniels

Yolande Daniels. Photo: Priscilla Mars. Cranbrook Academy of Art’s 2023-24 Public Lecture Series is free and open to the public in the deSalle Auditorium at ...

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2024 Annual Swanson Public Lecture: Flores & Prats Architects - Emotional Heritage

Join us on Thursday, January 25 for the 2024 Annual Swanson Lecture. This year’s lecture will be presented by Flores & Prats Architects. The lecture ...

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Public Lecture: Ghada Amer

Ghada Amer will present all aspects of their practice since 1991 detailing how their career has developed until today. Their practice includes painting, sculpture, ceramics, ...

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Design x Technology Lecture: Carla Diana (at Lawrence Technological University)

Join Head of 4D Design and Designer-in-Residence Carla Diana at Lawrence Technological University for a free lecture on Design X Technology on Thursday, February 15, ...

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Carl Toth: Reordering Fictions: Curator's Talk + Panel Discussion

Join us on Saturday, February 24, 2024, from 1–5pm for a lecture and reception in support of the exhibition, Carl Toth: Reordering Fictions, currently on view at Cranbrook ...

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Public Lecture: Andrianna Campbell-LaFleur

Andrianna Campbell-LaFleur writes mostly about modern and contemporary art history. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including a Yale University Presidential Research ...

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Public Lecture: Jennifer Ling Datchuk - Half/Both

Jennifer Ling Datchuk Join us for a free, public lecture from artist Jennifer Ling Datchuk at deSalle Auditorium at Cranbrook Art Museum. Datchuk was born ...

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Public Lecture: Yuri Suzuki

Cranbrook Academy of Art’s 2023-24 Public Lecture Series is free and open to the public in the deSalle Auditorium at Cranbrook Art Museum. Cranbrook Art ...

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Public Lecture: Lisa Lapinski

Lisa Lapinski Join us for a free, public lecture from artist Lisa Lapinski at deSalle Auditorium. Cranbrook Art Museum's galleries will be closed, so please ...

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2024 Annual Knoll Lecture in Design: John Edelman

Join us at deSalle Auditorium on Thursday, April 4 at 6pm, for this year's annual Knoll Lecture in Design, A Conversation with John Edelman: The Culture ...

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Public Lecture: Natalie Ball

Natalie Ball Join us at deSalle Auditorium on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, at 6pm for a free, public lecture from artist Natalie Ball. Cranbrook Academy ...

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Public Lecture: Amna Ashgar

Amna Asghar Cranbrook Academy of Art’s 2023-24 Public Lecture Series is free and open to the public in the deSalle Auditorium at Cranbrook Art Museum. ...

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Public Lecture: Aspen Golann & Christopher Kerr-Ayer

Please join the Metalsmithing Department and 3D Design Department in welcoming Aspen Golann and Christopher Kerr-Ayer. Golann is an artist & furniture maker blending early ...

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Public Lecture: Mike Cloud

Mike Cloud is a painter, associate professor, and director of graduate studies in the department of art, theory and practice at Northwestern University in Illinois. ...

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Public Lecture: Charisse Weston

Charisse Weston Join us on Thursday, October 3, 2024, at 6pm ET for the first lecture in the 2024-25 Cranbrook Academy of Art Lecture Series. ...

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The Knoll Lecture In Design: Brian Graham

Brian Graham Brian Graham is the founder and creative director of Graham Design, a studio specializing in contemporary furniture and related products for the workplace ...

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Annual Swanson Public Lecture: Axel Timm

Axel Timm Please join us for the 2024-25 Annual Swanson Lecture by Alex Timm, partner at raumlaborberlin, a Berlin-based collective of 9 architects working at ...

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Public Lecture: Leung Chi Wo - Material Narratives: Myths, Memories, and Senses

Leung Chi Wo. Portrait by Ringo Tang. Join us on Wednesday, November 13 at 6pm for a free public lecture from artist Leung Chi Wo. ...

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Public Lecture: Leonard Suryajaya

Please join us on Thursday, November 21 at 6pm for a free, public lecture by artist Leonard Suryajaya. Cranbrook Academy of Art’s 2024-25 Public Lecture ...

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Public Lecture: Jomo Tariku

Cranbrook Academy of Art’s 2024-25 Public Lecture Series is free and open to the public at Cranbrook's deSalle Auditorium. Cranbrook Art Museum is open late ...

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Public Lecture: Phong Bui

Phong Bui. Photo by Nicola Delorme. Join us on Thursday, January 16 for our first Public Lecture of 2025. Cranbrook Academy of Art’s 2024-25 Public Lecture ...

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Public Lecture: Elena Kanagy-Loux

Elena Kanagy-Loux. Photo by Rose Callahan. Join us on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, at 6pm for a free public lecture from artist Elena Kanagy-Loux. In ...

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Public Lecture: Leonor Hipólito

Leonor Hipólito Leonor Hipólito’s artistic expression combines mainly jewelry, poetry, drawing, sculpture, and installation. She holds a degree in Contemporary Jewellery from the Gerrit Rietveld ...

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Public Lecture: Carl J. D’Silva

Carl J. D’Silva, FAIA, is a Chicago-based architect and a Principal at Perkins&Will, and has recently released the book Lost Danish Treasure, which tells the ...

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Public Lecture: Porchia Moore

Dr. Porchia Moore is the Associate Director of the Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship (CAME) and an Associate Professor and Rotating Program Head of ...

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Book Launch and Lecture: "Still / Todavía," by Iris Eichenberg and Jimena Ríos

We are pleased to announce the launch of "Still / Todavía," by Iris Eichenberg and Jimena Ríos, the first in a series of jewelry books ...

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Public Lecture: Mike Cloud

Mike Cloud Mike Cloud is a painter and serves as an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Art, Theory, and ...

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Public Lecture: Kristen Morgin (POSTPONED!)

Due to the campus-wide power outage, tonight's lecture has been postponed. We will update you on the new date as soon as it is rescheduled. ...

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Public Lecture: Folayemi Wilson

Folayemi Wilson. Photo by Nathan Keay. Folayemi Wilson will share their work and process of mining history as material in their creative practice, and recent ...

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Public Lecture: Dolores Mallea

Dolores Mallea Join us for a lecture with architect Dolores Mallea, founder of SUR DEL CRUZ, a studio and workshop based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...

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Public Lecture: Daniel Bozhkov

Join us for a free public lecture from visiting artist Daniel Bozhkov. Bozhkov is a Bulgarian-born artist based in New York City. He employs a ...

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Public Lecture: Sam Valenti - Of Art & Artifice: 25 Years of Ghostly International

Join us for a free, public lecture with Sam Valenti IV, founder and leader of Ghostly International. The 25-year-old collective has grown from a dorm room-based ...

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Public Lecture: Bhakti Ziek - From Backstrap to Jacquard: The Influence of Technology on Weaving

Bhakti Ziek Join us in Cranbrook's deSalle Auditorium on Tuesday, October 7, at 6pm for a free, public lecture by Bhakti Ziek (MFA Fiber 1989), ...

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Public Lecture: Tamara Kostianovsky

Mesmerizing Flesh, 2023. Kinetic installation, discarded textiles. Join us in Cranbrook's deSalle Auditorium for a free, public lecture by Argentine-American artist Tamara Kostianovsky. Her work ...

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Public Lecture: Letha Wilson

Letha Wilson Join us in Cranbrook's deSalle Auditorium for a free, public lecture by Letha Wilson. Letha Wilson will present a large selection of her ...

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