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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Watch: 6 Artists On Black Identity
From the Louisiana Channel | Videos on the arts, featuring the artists: “Where am I in this story?” Watch artists such as Wangechi Mutu, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Chimamanda Adichie discuss how black people are (mis-)represented in today’s society and culture. Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977) discusses the narrow perception of beauty in African…
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Discussion: Post Now and Post New: Afrofuturist Themes in Contemporary Art Practice
From The Museum of Contemporary Photography: Jennifer Scott will lead a discussion with D.Denenge Duyst-Akpem and Ingrid LaFleur on Afrofuturist themes in contemporary art and how they inform artistic practice in photography and other mediums. Jennifer Scott is director and chief curator of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago. D. Denenge…
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Opportunity | ARTS FOR LEARNING LAB
From Young Audiences of Houston, Texas ARTS FOR LEARNING LAB FOR ARTISTS Are you a practicing artist who is interested in being a teaching artist or refining your knowledge of arts integration and lesson planning? FOR K-12 EDUCATORS Are you a K-12 educator who wants to support arts-integrated practices in your classroom and partner with…
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Event: Conversation, Projects and Collaborations over the Years, To Conserve a Legacy
From Yale University Art Gallery Jock Reynolds and Richard J. Powell Friday, April 27, 2018, 1:30 pm Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director, and Richard J. Powell, the John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, discuss their careers and their shared projects and collaborations. Powell and…
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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