Offsite Gallery opening reception “Afrotricity, Color Rapping” by Clyde Santana

Event date: September 20, 2024
Event Time: 05:00 PM – 07:00 PM
Location:
300 Monticello Ave
Suite #287
Norfolk, VA 23510
Description:
Join Norfolk Arts as we welcome local multimedia, interdisciplinary artist Clyde Santana for his solo exhibition at our Offsite Gallery at MacArthur Center.

Santana began his art career by completing 23 mural projects in Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey.

An Adjunct Professor at Norfolk State University since 2016, Santana has led his students in the design and creation of 14 mural projects in Norfolk, VA.

Santana also teaches drama and playwriting courses at NSU. He founded the Attucks Writers Workshop in 2009 which in 2017, became what is now, The Zeiders American Dream Theater Playwriters Lab, where he currently teaches.

For the past 30 years, Clyde Santana co-authored stage plays for community children’s theaters with his wife, the late Gail Davis.

Santana graduated from Springfield College with a Bachelor of Science, Art in Urban Life/Arts Education and received a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.