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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Exhibit: Went Looking for Beauty: Refashioning Self, a fine art photography exhibition
From the August Wilson Center: The August Wilson Center presents Went Looking for Beauty: Refashioning Self, a fine art photography exhibition by Deborah Willis, Ph.D. Through the exploration of two main themes, My Friends’ Closets and Street Views, Willis’ photos reconstruct an imagined past through images depicting its beauty, identity, and cultural memory. This project…
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Exhibit: “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon”
From the New Museum: “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon” investigates gender’s place in contemporary art and culture at a moment of political upheaval and renewed culture wars. The exhibition features an intergenerational group of artists who explore gender beyond the binary to usher in more fluid and inclusive expressions of identity. The…
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Archived Exhibit: Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaime
From Knockdown Center: View Archived Exhibit This fall (2017) at Knockdown Center, artist Azikiwe Mohammed stages a performative installation of his fictional thrift store, Jimmy’s Thrift of New Davonhaime. New Davonhaime – a location conceived by Mohammed – is an amalgamation of the names of the five most densely populated Black cities in America: New…
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Art Talks: BAIA Talks | Dr. Halima Taha on the African American Art Market
About BAIA Talks: BAIA Talks: Dr. Halima Taha on the African American Art Market since the 80’s and the impact of the best selling book Collecting African American Art: works on paper and canvas. Interviewed by Najee Dorsey. HALIMA TAHA is recognized throughout the United States as a leading authority on collecting African American art 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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