Lamon Manuel

Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI) - Visiting Artist Creative Workshop. Join us this month for a workshop from Lamon Manuel. Lamon Manuel is a Hip Hop performance artist from Chicago's South Side and founding member of the Hip Hop collective, Tomorrow Kings. He has been working as an Hip Hop, poetry and performance teaching artist since 2002 with organizations such as Young Chicago Authors, After School Matters, Free Write Jail Arts and Literacy Program, The Guild Complex, Chicago Slam Works and Shanti Foundation and more. Though his own person work has been described as a long, brooding dystopian love story, his work as a teaching artist has always been focused around honing in on and furthering each individual student's personal style rather than simply lead them in the path he has chosen for himself. OMAI is the home of the The First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community: a cutting-edge multicultural artistic program for incoming students which offers a four-year full tuition scholarship to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Bringing together young artists and leaders from across the U.S and beyond, the First Wave Learning Community offers students the opportunity to live, study and create together in a close-knit, dynamic campus community. This project is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services.