Join us for special night of music celebrating Black History Month and the new art installation in our sanctuary with Govans Band soloist Laura Sligh and friend of Govans, Roderick Demmings, Jr. Laura is a multidisciplinary artist who combines the genres of theater, performance, and production and compiles them into a mixed visual art media. Her art is complex and layered, not only visually, but psychologically and emotionally as well.
She has also worked as a director, theater teacher, and visual artist in Baltimore and its surrounding area for many years, with organizations such as Eubie Blake Cultural Arts Center, The YMCA, YATTS, Arena Players, and Baltimore City Schools. She has also worked as a stage manager, wig, makeup, and costume designer in the Baltimore Washington area and her work has been seen in shows such as Grease, Little Shop of Horrors, Dreamgirls, The Wiz, Oliver, and Once on this Island. Laura holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Roderick Demmings Jr., an award-winning pianist and organist who, at the age of 12, performed a solo at Carnegie Hall. He later graduated from Hopkin’s Peabody Conservatory and has appeared around the world, including a tour in South Africa and performances at the Vatican and the Kennedy Center.
Email Lea Gilmore (lea@govanspres.org) if you have any questions.
