Celebrate 30 years of the OA.

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Andria Lisle


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Andria Lisle is a visual-art curator, author, journalist, and former music biz veteran who once worked for Ike Turner. She has toured with the Grifters, the Bo-Keys, and Otha Turner’s Rising Star Fife & Drum Band; driven Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks across the Mississippi Delta and taken Sonic Youth to Mississippi’s Graceland Too; sipped tea with Al Kapone; slung t-shirts for Tommy Wright III; and traded jokes with 8Ball & MJG. Fugazi, Nation of Ulysses, the Clean, John Wesley Harding, and the Cheater Slicks have slept on her floor. Read more about her adventures at andrialisle.com.

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