By Nadia Addezio and Sylvie Bello Special to the AFRO Professor Coleman A. Jordan teaches architecture at Morgan State University. For over two years, he has worked closely with students and alumni from the Baltimore HBCU, as well as from Tuskegee and Clemson Universities, to realize “ReCall & Response,” a wooden pavilion whose form evokes African instruments, the djembe and the dundun—the latter often referred to as the “talking drum.” This striking work, blending architecture and sound, is now on view at the Marinaressa Gardens in the captivating lagoon city of Venice. “The drum has always been the heartbeat of
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