NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
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Get a free Official National Poetry Month Poster. Featuring artwork by Jack Wong, and lines from “blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton.
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ART Retreat | 2021 Virtual Mindfulness Retreat for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC)
FROM the Baltimore and Beyond Mindfulness Community Overview: This virtual retreat is open to anyone who self-identifies as Black, Indigenous, or a person of color, whether new or more experienced in the practice of mindfulness and meditation. We will come together in a safe and joyful virtual environment to find fellowship, to stop, rest, look deeply,…
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ART Exhibitons | 2020-2021 “bisa butler: portraits,” at the art institute of chicago
New Jersey based artist, Bisa Butler is the first African American solo artist to exhibit a textile exhibition inside the Art Institute of Chicago. Butler’s colorful, detailed, and visual portrait quilt stories, will have you in Bisa Butler’s art-esthetic space for days. According to the Art Institute of Chicago’s exhibition site, “Butler made her first…
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ART history | Madam President is in the Building and she is Black!
Indeed this has been a long month that we will never forget as a nation and world. The editorial team felt compelled to end November with a mini exhibit featuring Madam Vice President, Kamala Devi Harris of the United States of America. She is the first woman to be elected and is African American and…
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ART Event | Documenting the Black Art Experience with Kaila Austin
Documenting the Black Art Experience with Kaila Austin Event Description Artist David Driscoll said that we will be defined by our culture more than any inventions we might create, and as such we must document the work of Black artists. In 1976 artist Samella Lewis created Black Art: An International Quarterly, now the International Review…
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ART Discussion | Man of Change: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden
From The California African American Museum Man of Change: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden Wednesday, November 4, 2020 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. ABOUT: Listen in as Mary Schmidt Campbell, President of Spelman College and author of An American Odyssey: The Life and Work of Romare Bearden, and Robert G. O’Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor…
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