Happy Pride, Classmates, and welcome to the season finale of ART CLASS! And have we got a show for you today! We are heading into the summer purse first with this week's iconic guest, RuPaul's Drag Race Season 8 winner, Bob the Drag Queen! Join us as Bob gives us their hilarious and brilliant takes on a wide array of topics from gender to drag to artistry to comedy and even gives some loving advice to all the baby queens out there. It's a chat you don't want to miss. Then it's time for one last Career Day with singer, coach and activist Brian McQueen, who shares some wisdom for anyone who wants to break into opera. Plus, the Morning Announcements with Emile and the baddest PBJ you've heard all season! So for the last time this season, take your seats, y'all, because class is in session!

And keep it locked here. We'll be back with a fresh batch of all-new episodes in the fall! Thanks for being such an integral part of our first season!

Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Mabolé Inawale)

Guests: Bob the Drag Queen, Brian McQueen

Contributor: Emilia Mettenbrink

Producer: Rocky Jones

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Links

Bob the Drag Queen (Website) (Insta) (Tour Tickets)

Brian McQueen (Website) - Brian will be teaching the McQueen Voice Intensive, a 3-week vocal intensive summer course beginning July 1st. Lessons are both in-person and virtual. Also, this August, you can catch Brian in recital with ChaShaMa in NYC and in a workshop of a new opera with ANIMA Early Music of Guelph, Ontario Canada. More details can be found on his website!

Da Baddest by Trina (Simon & Schuster)

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New episodes of ART CLASS drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. For more info about the show, please visit lincolncenter.org/ArtClass. Email your questions or comments to artclasspod@gmail.com.

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Thanks to Our Supporters!

Major support for Campaign for One Million Kids provided by Leonard and Judy Lauder

Lead support for educational programming is provided by Anonymous

Major support for educational programming is provided by LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and The Walt Disney Company

Additional support is provided by Constans Culver Foundation, NBCUniversal, the Richmond County Savings Foundation, Alice L. Walton Foundation, the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, the Theodore H. Barth Foundation, The Katz Family Charitable Lead Trust, Tom and Musa Mayer, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Giants Foundation, Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc., William Sherman, trustee for the Murray G. and Beatrice H. Sherman Charitable Trust

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Happy Pride, Classmates and welcome back to ART CLASS! We're back to our regularly scheduled programming this week with two fantastic conversations for you to enjoy. First, we're joined by the fabulous and talented Giselle Byrd, Executive Director of The Theater Offensive in Boston and the first Black trans woman to hold such a title at an American theater company. We'll chat about the need for representation and change in the theater industry, particularly for marginalized communities, as well as the challenges faced by trans leaders everywhere. Then Career Day is back! We're joined by esteemed artist and author Shawn Martinbrough, who'll teach us all about breaking into the comic book industry. Plus, the Morning Announcements with Emilia, a nerdy little PBJ for your soul, and we'll be joined all show by our dear, dear friend and Lincoln Center colleague, Frankie Charles! Take your seats, y'all! Class is in session!

Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Mabolé Inawale)

Guests: Giselle Byrd, Shawn Martinbrough

Contributor: Emilia Mettenbrink, Frankie Charles

Producer: Rocky Jones

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Links

The Theater Offensive (Website)

Giselle Byrd (Insta)

Shawn Martinbrough (Website) (Insta)

Anansi Boys Announcement (THR)

Judge Kim Book Seriese (Forbes)

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New episodes of ART CLASS drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. For more info about the show, please visit lincolncenter.org/ArtClass. Email your questions or comments to artclasspod@gmail.com.

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Thanks to Our Supporters!

Major support for Campaign for One Million Kids provided by Leonard and Judy Lauder

Lead support for educational programming is provided by Anonymous

Major support for educational programming is provided by LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and The Walt Disney Company

Additional support is provided by Constans Culver Foundation, NBCUniversal, the Richmond County Savings Foundation, Alice L. Walton Foundation, the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, the Theodore H. Barth Foundation, The Katz Family Charitable Lead Trust, Tom and Musa Mayer, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Giants Foundation, Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc., William Sherman, trustee for the Murray G. and Beatrice H. Sherman...

We have a very special episode for you today, Classmates! Last April, as part of the Hear it Here Podcast Festival, we gathered at Lincoln Center's David Rubinstein Atrium to sit in the presence of music royalty! So please join us for an audience with Nona Hendryx, legendary singer/songwriter, technological innovator, and all-around wise and wonderful person. She'll talk to us about her long, illustrious career spent blurring the lines between genres and her brand new project, "The Dream Machine," which will debut this summer as part of Lincoln Center's Summer for the City. Later on in the conversation, we're joined by two young artists working with her on "The Dream Machine," Nia-Simone Egerton and Sophia Edwards, who chat about their experience making this larger-than-life project come to fruition. We're so excited to finally share this experience with all of you, so take your seats. Class in session! LIVE!!!

Hosts: Lee Bynum, Rocky Jones, Paige Reynolds (Mabolé Inawale)

Guests: Nona Hendryx, Nia-Simone Egerton, Sophia Edwards

Contributor: Emilia Mettenbrink

Producer: Rocky Jones

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Links

Nona Hendryx (Website) (Insta)

The Dream Machine Experience (Learn More) (Buy Tickets)

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New episodes of ART CLASS drop every other Tuesday. If you like what you hear, please support us and SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and be sure to SHARE our show with your friends. Also, leaving a 5-star REVIEW on Apple Podcasts is a great way to help people find our show. For more info about the show, please visit lincolncenter.org/ArtClass. Email your questions or comments to artclasspod@gmail.com.

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Thanks to Our Supporters!

Major support for Campaign for One Million Kids provided by Leonard and Judy Lauder

Lead support for educational programming is provided by Anonymous

Major support for educational programming is provided by LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and The Walt Disney Company

Additional support is provided by Constans Culver Foundation, NBCUniversal, the Richmond County Savings Foundation, Alice L. Walton Foundation, the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, the Theodore H. Barth Foundation, The Katz Family Charitable Lead Trust, Tom and Musa Mayer, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Giants Foundation, Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc., William Sherman, trustee for the Murray G. and Beatrice H. Sherman Charitable Trust

Educational programming is made possible, in part, with public support facilitated by New York City Council Members Julie Menin and Keith Powers