*Solange Knowles is the cover star of Document Journal’s special winter issue, stunning in a red Bottega Veneta gown.
In the Fall/Winter 2024–2025 edition, she joins artist Wangechi Mutu and MoMA curator T. Jean Lax for a conversation about creativity and her future projects. At the time of the interview, the songstress was preparing for the Saint Heron Eldorado Ballroom series at Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles.
Knowles presented the three-night music series last year. According to Saintheron.com, this event was inspired by “the historic Black music hall in Solange’s native neighborhood, Houston’s Third Ward,” where she and her sister, Beyoncé, grew up. The event followed a previous edition held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 2023. The Los Angeles lineup featured artists such as Patrice Rushen, Bilal, Moses Sumney, Dominique Johnson, J*Davey, and the Gospel Music Workshop of America’s Women of Worship choir.
“As I think about Eldorado Ballroom and how radical it was for a Black couple, Anna and Clarence Dupree, to start this in 1939 and create a space where performance could really thrive,” Knowles told Document Journal.
“I’m feeling the ghosts of Mary Lou Williams and Julia Perry, two composers who have completely changed the trajectory of what I know is possible. I’m really, really excited to celebrate their spirit in this temple,” she continued.
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Knowles said her latest artistic endeavor, glass sculpting, has “taught me more about myself.”
“Glass has taught me more about myself and taught me really tough lessons that I was trying to learn in so many other ways, which was the act of surrender,” she explained. “I’ve lived such a chaotic life where I often felt like I had no control, control of my body, my story, my narrative—I developed an almost obsessive need for control, and it did not serve me in a lot of ways.”
Read Solonage’s full interview with the publication HERE.
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