The next installment of the “Conversations with Storytellers” series will continue with Dr. Nancy Tolson at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13, at the Pigeon Community Multicultural Development Center in Waynesville.
A proud product of the Detroit Public Schools, Tolson received her masters and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, researching the history and development of Black children’s literature. She has been a Ford Fellow, a NEH facilitator as well as a Fulbright scholar/lecturer at the University of Cape Coast (Ghana) while conducting research on West African folklore.
For three years, Tolson was an Illinois Humanities’ “Road Scholar,” storytelling throughout the state. She is the author of “Black Children’s Literature Got de Blues: The Creativity of Black Writers and Illustrators” (2008) and “Tales of Africa” (1998). She is a commissioner for the Columbia Museum of Art, as well as an active docent there.
