When Melissa Etheridge — a Grammy and Academy Award-winner, as well as the singer-songwriter responsible for the six-time platinum album Yes I Am — pitched her first record to radio stations, those in charge would
Bill Brockman, head driver for the Chatuauquan Institution, is set to retire at the end of the 2019 season.MHARI SHAW/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Once, during his 21-year-career driving entertainers, lecturers and students to and from Chautauqua Institution,
On the first Sunday of the season, the Poetry Makerspace at the Hultquist Center hosted the inaugural “Poems on the Porch” of the summer, emceed by Director of Literary Arts Atom Atkinson and Wick Poetry
Music Director Wynton Marsalis plays the trumpet alongside the combined Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra in playing the National Anthem before playing Marsalis', "The Jungle," during the concert on Tuesday, Aug
Vice President, Emily and Richard Smucker Chair for Education, Matt Ewalt, holds up one of the CLSC selections for 2020, "In the Country of Women" written by Susan Straight, during the annual Bryant Day ceremony
Chautauqua Institution President Michael E. Hill presents the physical Chautauqua Prize to Anjali Sachdeva, author of "All the Names They Used for God: Stories" Friday, Aug. 16, 2019 in the Hall of Philosophy. DAVE MUNCH/PHOTO
Reverend Eugene Taylor Sutton speaks to a crowd of chautauquans on Tuesday, Aug 21, 2019 in the Hall of Philosophy about the current atmosphere of racism we've been living in since the 2016 election, as
Harjo Atom Atkinson, director of literary arts, invited poet Joy Harjo to speak at Chautauqua Institution long before Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden appointed the award-winning writer and musician to the United States’ 23rd Poet
Sarah Lewis, author of "The Rise" and guest editor of Aperture's "Vision & Justice" issue, speaks about the power of images in the history of racial identity and justice Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019 on the
Lewis In 1926, high school junior Shadrach Emmanuel Lee asked his Brooklyn public high school history teacher why their textbooks featured no African Americans. Lee’s challenge of early 20th-century representations of excellence was met with
Wynton Marsalis, managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and world-renowned trumpeter and composer, speaks about "The Ever Fonky Lowdown" Monday, Aug. 19, 2019 on the Amphitheater stage. DAVE MUNCH/PHOTO EDITOR Wynton Marsalis
Matejka It starts with an image — a sketch, a fragment or a scribble. Then, equipped with a full notebook brimming with snatches of ideas that move him, Adrian Matejka returns to his pages to
Wynton During most performances with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, trombonist Chris Crenshaw sits right in front of the organization’s managing and artistic director, nine-time Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis. “I always
Matejka Loffreda No matter how integral the concept of voice is to Adrian Matejka, Indiana’s poet laureate is grateful that there is a difference between his voice “in the world” and the voices that animate
The 2019 Chautauqua Prize, created by local artist Kirsten Engstrom, honors Anjali Sachdeva’s "All the Names They Used for God: Stories". DAVE MUNCH/PHOTO EDITOR Sachdeva After finishing the last story of the collection that
Kovacic In 1993, Kristin Kovacic became a mother and discovered that “motherhood is one of the great underwritten subjects.” So, with Lynne Barrett, Kovacic co-edited the 2002 book, Birth: A Literary Companion, a guide full