esperanza spalding is an artist, trained and initiated in the North American jazz lineage and tradition. Her work interweaves various combinations of instrumental music, improvisation, singing, composition, poetry, dance, therapeutic research, storytelling, teaching, restorative urban land, and artist-sanctuary custodianship. She founded and serves as co-director of Prismid Sanctuary, a non-profit that creates and stewards restorative artist residency and workshop space in Portland, Oregon (Prismid.org). She is a 2024 recipient of the Doris Duke Foundation Artist Award and a 2016 Ford Foundation “Art of Change” Fellow.
Doors to the auditorium will open at 3:30. This program is first come, first served.
