NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
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Public Domain Art: Self-Portrait,
From the Met: Artwork: Self-portrait | Artist: Samuel Brown Samuel Brown received a Masters degree in Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania, and quickly established himself as an expert watercolorist. He had the distinction of being the first African American hired by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the government’s initial work-relief program…
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Public Domain Art: Five Points, 1827
From the Met Artwork: Five Points | Artist: Unknown Five Points was a slum on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Declared in 1858 in the New York Herald a “nest of drunkenness, roguery, debauchery, vice, and pestilence,” the neighborhood was home to a combustible mix of New York’s poorest citizens: recently arrived (predominantly Irish) immigrants,…
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View: Wyeth Foundation for American Art Symposium: Artists Panel: The African American Art World in Twentieth-Century Washington, DC
From the National Gallery of Art: In this program, presented on March 17, 2017, eight distinguished artists discuss their careers and relationships as members of the Washington, DC, art world. Panelists are Lilian Thomas Burwell, Floyd Coleman, David C. Driskell, Sam Gilliam, Keith A. Morrison, Martin Puryear, Sylvia Snowden, and Lou Stovall. Ruth Fine, former…
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Film: Artist Faith Ringgold stars in Cecile Emeke’s new short film ‘When The Ancestors Came’
From gal-dem.com “You do have a lot of power when you’re an artist. You can actually do what you want. You don’t need anyone’s permission to do it in any way. Now, will you? That’s the problem.” This question is posed by artist Faith Ringgold in Cecile Emeke’s new short film When The Ancestors Came. Ringgold’s…
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Exhibition: Blue Black Curated by Glenn Ligon
From Pulitzer Arts Foundation: Influential American artist Glenn Ligon offers a lyrical meditation on the colors blue and black. Inspired by his experience of the Pulitzer’s monumental Ellsworth Kelly wall sculpture, Blue Black, Ligon enlists the colors to pose timely and nuanced questions, touching upon notions of language, identity, and perception. The exhibition brings together a…
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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