Best of Design Matters: Nell Irvin Painter

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Irvin Painter has published works on such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Malcolm X. Her unique vantage on American history pushes the boundaries of personal narrative and academic authorship and asks readers to reconsider ideas of race, politics, and identity. She joins to discuss her legendary career as a distinguished historian, award-winning author, and artist.

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0:00.0	Believe it or not, it's the 20th anniversary of design matters. 20 years. To celebrate this
0:08.2	milestone, I'm hosting a special show on April 17th at Symphony Space in New York City.
0:14.6	I'll be joined by some of my all-time favorite guests and some new ones. There will be interviews, there will be music, there will
0:23.5	be magic, and I'll be giving out copies of my brand new book, Love Letter to a Garden, and a
0:30.3	limited edition print of artwork from the book. To purchase tickets, go to symphony space.org.
0:38.5	Hope to see you there.
0:43.3	This episode of Design Matters originally dropped in April of 2024.
0:50.1	When I am with other black women writers and they talk about what made the difference from them,
0:54.1	they talk about when they were girls and they read Tony Morrison. When I was a girl, and they read Tony Morrison.
0:57.7	When I was a girl, there was no Tony Morrison.
1:05.0	From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.
1:17.0	For 19 years, Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on.
1:22.2	On this episode, Nell Irvin Painter talks about history and art.
1:30.1	As a historian, I knew what the values and the standards were. In art, I did it.
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