Uploaded June 2022 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago

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“This talk takes part of its title “Yellow, Orange Glow” from a painting by the acclaimed Washington, DC, artist Alma Thomas. Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka’s phrase “fire light and heat for the world,” connects Thomas’s luminous palette and the noun and verb “glow” to a modern Black consciousness and life’s radiant possibilities.

This is the third talk of the six-part series “Colorstruck! Painting, Pigment, Affect,” presented by Richard J. Powell of Duke University for the 71st A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts.

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