Join ArtsNow for the next installment of our Dreamers and Doers series with a conversation between David Giffels and Dominic Moore-Dunson!
David has written six books of nonfiction, most recently Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America, which Publishers Weekly calls “a trenchant mix of memoir, reportage, and political analysis.” His other books include the memoirs Furnishing Eternity and All the Way Home, both winners of the Ohioana Book Award, and The Hard Way on Purpose, a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice.” His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Parade, The Iowa Review, Esquire, Grantland, and many other publications. He is a professor of English at the University of Akron, where he teaches in the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts creative writing program.
Dominic now in his 11th season with Inlet Dance Theatre, hails from Akron, OH, where he attended the University of Akron and Firestone High School (Akron School for the Arts). ... view more »
Join ArtsNow for the next installment of our Dreamers and Doers series with a conversation between David Giffels and Dominic Moore-Dunson!
David has written six books of nonfiction, most recently Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America, which Publishers Weekly calls “a trenchant mix of memoir, reportage, and political analysis.” His other books include the memoirs Furnishing Eternity and All the Way Home, both winners of the Ohioana Book Award, and The Hard Way on Purpose, a New York Times Book Review “Editors’ Choice.” His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Parade, The Iowa Review, Esquire, Grantland, and many other publications. He is a professor of English at the University of Akron, where he teaches in the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts creative writing program.
Dominic now in his 11th season with Inlet Dance Theatre, hails from Akron, OH, where he attended the University of Akron and Firestone High School (Akron School for the Arts). Recently recognized as 2019 “New Agent” by MOCA Cleveland, Dominic has received numerous fellowships and recognitions as an emerging artist and arts leader including 2018 Commission by Akron Art Museum to his solo work, “CAUTION,” a 2018 Breakout Artist by the Devil Strip Magazine (Akron), 2016 National Arts Strategies (NAS) Creative Community Fellow (DC), 2016 Collen Porter Fellow (International Performing Arts for Youth), and an inaugural member of Leadership Akron’s Diversity on Board Program. Dominic is a graduate of the National Arts Strategies Executive in Arts Leadership Program (University of Pennsylvania) to enhance his capacity in all aspects of running a thriving arts & culture organization. Dominic is the founder and creator of “The ‘Black Card’ Project.” A large-scale community-based dance theatre project exploring black identity as it relates to economic development in the black community. In partnership with arts, education, and business institutions/corporations, he is working to create a conversation around the solutions we can generate to cultivate a more diverse and successful future for black Americans.
Thank you to Akron Community Foundation and Knight Foundation for making this series possible!
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