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01/13/2023 11:59 AM EST
On Thursday, January 19th, 2023 at 7pm in the James Madison Building’s Montpelier Room, Dr. Karen Bryan, Dean of the Arts at Pima Community College, is presenting a lecture: “Self-Determination on the Operatic Stage: Mary Cardwell Dawson and African American performance in Washington, DC and New York City.” Music educator, choir director, opera director, and administrator Mary Cardwell Dawson (1894-1962) founded the National Negro Opera Company, the country’s first African-American opera company, in 1941. The Library of Congress is home to the National Negro Opera Company Collection, which documents the Company’s productions, operations, fundraising efforts, as well as as Dawson’s career and impact.