NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
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ART EVENT: Investing in Archivists
From A.R.T. Please join us for a wonderful evening of discourse, where we will address the significant financial challenges and opportunities facing archivists today. The panelists will discuss the various ways in which they have been successful in securing funding for professional development, hiring, promotions, and advocating for salary increase for the professional staff at…
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BOMB’s (African American Art History) Oral History Project
From Bomb Magazine The Oral History Project BOMB’s Oral History Project is a unique series of one-on-one interviews with New York-based African-American artists, curators, and cultural figures. It aims to shine a light on the lives and careers of distinguished practitioners across the arts, many of whom remain under-recognized. Since 2014, we have spoken with…
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The Status of Difference: Thelma Golden – Post-Black Art Now
From Tate In the late 1990s curator and writer Thelma Golden coined the controversial term ‘post-black art’ with friend and artist Glenn Ligon to refer to a post-civil rights generation of African-American artists whose work she believed could no longer be defined in terms of ‘race’. In this lecture and discussion, Golden reflects on the…
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Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial Celebration
From Poets.org Celebrate the 100th birthday of Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) with poets Angela Jackson and Quraysh Ali Lansana, who will read Brooks’ work and engage in a conversation on her legacy. A Shelley Memorial Award winner, Jackson is the author of numerous plays, novels and poetry collections, including the National Book Award-nominated And All These Roads Be Luminous: Poems Selected and…
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The Charleston 9 | A Retrospective in Color
From The New York Times: Looking at an Artist’s Portraits of the Charleston Shooting Victims For years, Rudy Shepherd has made watercolor paintings to humanize people in the news. By DANIEL McDERMONJAN. 11, 2017 Read complete article and view images here.
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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