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| The Maxine Greene Salon, periodically-staged, informal gatherings, sponsored in conjuction with the Maxine Greene Foundation, where teachers, students, and faculty come together to discuss significant works of literature of contemporary interest. | |||||||||
The Museum of Education volunteered to stage salons knowing that any “real-time” participation with Maxine Greene would be a thrill for us all. Also, in accord with Maxine’s life long efforts to build communities and public spaces, we recognized that an ongoing salon program would be most enjoyable and would come to represent the basic beliefs and intentions of the Museum of Education. |
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In conjunction with the New York City-based Maxine Greene Foundation, the Museum of Education staged our second salon-informal discussion for the academic year. We read Toni Morrison’s novel, Jazz, and met on January 22nd (Sunday afternoon) from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in the Travelstead Room at Wardlaw Hall. Maxine welcomed us via telephone and then we screened a video of her introduction from the New York City Salon (held on January 8th). Once again, we were pleased to be joined by Lee Bauknight, faculty in the Department of English and former Associate Curator of the Museum of Education, who led our discussion. |
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As Maxine has written about the salon: “There are almost too many reading possibilities; but we have chosen Toni Morrison's luscious, moving, semi-tragic, revealing novel, Jazz. No, it is not about New Orleans particularly; but it certainly summons up some of the confusion and heartbreak associated with the flood. It also recalls the migrations from the South, the echoes of that south in Harlem and New York not so many years ago. And it makes sharply present a context that includes lynching, discrimination, and the vibrancy of a culture always in renewal. Some have pointed to the 'funkiness' in sections of it, to what it means to have 'cracks' in consciousness, to be in search and to be lost. And it all seems to occur along with the golden sounds of a hidden saxophone. Of course, we look forward to your responses and what they suggest when it comes to this dark time in our history, and whatever can be imagined when it comes to future possibilities.” |
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Museum of Education - Wardlaw Hall - University of South Carolina - Columbia, SC 29208 - 803.777.5741
museumofeducation@sc.edu