Harmonia Rosales is an Afro-Cuban artist from Chicago, who lives and works in Los Angeles. She will visit Tyler on Monday, March 23, to present an artist talk with Q&A. Her work is rooted in her heritage and the stories she heard from her mother and grandmothers, and their Lucumí practices and beliefs.

Ms. Rosales will share with us how she became interested in Renaissance oil-paint techniques as she developed her own artistic style to the very different ends of centering West African spirituality and Black protagonists. Her paintings and new book Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic disrupt Western, patriarchal, and Eurocentric ideals of beauty and the divine in her retelling and reinvention of origin myths from Yoruba, Afro-Cuban, and other African diasporic communities.

This event is free and open to the public.