For six decades, with passion and perfect pitch, Joan Baez sang out her hopes and dreams, her anger at injustice and dedication to nonviolence — and became the musical voice of a generation of rebels.

In her late seventies, ready to turn to other artistic pursuits, Baez announced her final tour in 2019 — she was trading in her public performing for a more private medium, channeling her lifelong passions into painting and drawing. Brushes and pencils became her new artistic instruments.

Upon the release of her new book, Am I Pretty When I Fly? An Album of Upside Down Drawings, Baez joins us to talk about her journey from singing in Cambridge coffeehouses, on the back of flatbed trucks in Mississippi and on stages across the world to spending her days in her Northern California art studio. She’ll discuss making art that captures her thoughts (both feisty and whimsical) as well as the essence of her favorite “mischief makers” and how her new form of expression does — and does not — change her lifelong message.

She will be in conversation with Amanda Petrusich, a music writer on the staff of The New Yorker and author of three books.