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Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts announces highlights of 2025 spring season

Playwright, actor, and educator Anna Deavere Smith Hon. ’97—who launched her yearlong artist residency at Wesleyan with the first public staged reading of her new work "This Ghost of Slavery" in October 2024—will be in discussion with composer Samora Pinderhughes on January 24, 2025 about art, civic engagement, art’s role in healing the wounds of history, and the importance of intergenerational mentorship. Smith will return to campus to conclude her residency with a convening from April 9 to 12, 2025 exploring the power of art in building bridges to histories that help us understand and transform the present. Photo of Anna Deavere Smith by Mark Brendel of Perceptions Photography.

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Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts (CFA) announces the highlights of their 2025 spring season, including convenings with the campus community led by the CFA’s 2024–2025 artist in residence Anna Deavere Smith Hon. ’97; two complimentary concurrent solo exhibitions featuring a painting and installation by Parker Ito, and framed wall-based works and designed objects that recall domestic interiors by Chris Domenick; and the premiere of two commissioned works by composer Jlin (Jerrilynn Patton).

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