NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
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Black Artists and the March into the Museum
From The New York Times: By RANDY KENNEDY, NOV. 28, 2015 The painter Norman Lewis rarely complained in public about the singular struggles of being a black artist in America. But in 1979, dying of cancer, he made a prediction to his family. “He said to us, ‘I think it’s going to take about 30…
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La Sombra y el Espiritu IV – The Work of Stefanie Jackson
From CHAPEL HILL: From February 11 – May 13, 2016 the Stone Center’s Robert and Sallie Brown Gallery and Museum will host noted artist Stefanie Jackson for an exhibition entitled La Sombra y el Espiritu IV: Figurative Visions and Collective Histories – The Work of Stefanie Jackson. Jackson, a professor at the Lamar Dodd School…
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100 Strangers: Exhibition and Film Screening
Exhibition: 100 Strangers Date: February 11, 2016 | Time: 6PM – 9PM Location: The Community Artists’ Collective, 4101 San Jacinto at Cleburne, Suite 116, Houston, Texas 77004 100 Strangers, at its original inception, was meant to capture 100 portraits of random people on the street. The path started out as a cut and dry concept. An…
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New York Times Publishes First-Ever, Art-Themed Issue of Sunday Book Review
From Culture Type: FEATURING “ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, art-themed fiction, artist biography, nonfiction about the art world, original photography and original artwork,” the New York Times published its first-ever art-themed Sunday Book Review section today (June 28, 2015). The print version arrived in this morning’s paper, but the reviews began appearing online Wednesday and a specially designed…
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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