Between Us | J Rawls, Ed.D.

Join us for the inaugural season of Between Us. This series invites Columbus’s most compelling cultural voices into Bar Room to share a deeply personal playlist made up of the songs that have shaped them. Each evening will unfold as a collective experience in which our guest will offer a few words about the music they’ve chosen—the memories, people, and chapters of their life that it holds—before hitting play and letting us find out what happens when the songs that mean something to one of us are shared between us. Between Us is free with registration, including access to the exhibition and Bar Room. Galleries will close at 8:00 PM while Bar Room remains open until 10:00 PM. Register This program is supported by the Franklin County Board of Commissioners. About J Rawls, Ed.D. Known for his music production work with artists like Black Thought, Busta Rhymes, Mos Def, Domo Genesis (Odd Future), Capital Steez (Pro Era), Beastie Boys, Del tha Funky Homosapien, Aloe Blacc and more. Still an active practitioner in the music industry, in 2024, Rawls released an album with Talib Kweli called “The Confidence of Knowing”. Dr. Jason Rawls is an educator with over two decades of teaching experience. A leader of the #HipHopEd movement, Dr. Rawls is an Assistant Professor of Hip Hop at THE Ohio State University. He is part of the team that is creating one of the first Hip Hop Studies program in a School of Music in the United States. Before this, at Ohio University, Dr. Rawls helped develop the first Hip-Hop Based Education program in a College of Education. The program, called H.O.P.E., is a series of four courses rooted in Hip-Hop Based Education using both Culturally Relevant and Relational Pedagogy. Dr. Rawls is also co-author of a book entitled, Youth Culture Power: A #HipHopEd Guide to Building Teacher-Student Relationships and Increasing Student Engagement. He is also featured in an exhibit on Hip Hop at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in…