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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Exhibition | Hank Willis Thomas: Unbranded
From the Northwestern Block Museum of Art: View Slide Show of Exhibition A practicing artist for over fifteen years, Hank Willis Thomas (American, b. 1976) has consistently explored American consumer culture, particularly as it relates to African-American subjects. His projects often appropriate imagery drawn from advertising campaigns to investigate the subtle and not so subtle…
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Apply | Board Building and Preservation Planning: National Trust Preservation Leadership Training®
From The Association of African American Museums: The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) will host a multi-day workshop designed to address the specific needs of executive directors, trustees, and boards managing African American historic sites and museums. The workshop offers effective methods of advancing…
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Jewell R. Mazique: The African American Library Clerk, Digital Photography Exhibition
From ART | library deco exhibition space: Visit Exhibition Online: https://rebrand.ly/jewellrmazique (Jefferson City, Missouri – June 2018) ART | library deco will debut its summer digital photography exhibition featuring Jewell Rosebud Mazique on June 7, 2018 thru September 7, 2018. Jewell R. Mazique: The African American Library Clerk will spotlight nearly 20 still-life images taken in…
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Learn More About The Obsidian Collection Archives
From The Obsidian Collection: The Obsidian Collection will be today’s modern Griot of African-American stories. As beings evolved to communicate through language and storytelling, our human culture couldn’t exist without our capacity to share stories. Some would even say that our individual identity is nothing more than a story we tell ourselves about ourselves. The…
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MoAD Emerging Artists Applications Now Open
From MoAD: MoAD Emerging Artists is an open call for Bay Area-based artists to submit proposals presenting a solo exhibition to be shown at MoAD. Via the Emerging Artists Program, \MoAD aims to foster artists – both emerging and mid-career – with the intention of amplifying the professional and artistic development opportunities available to chosen…
Cover Image Courtesy, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1893). Phillis Wheatley Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-7329-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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