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NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024

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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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  • Tour: African American Artists: Collection Highlights

    From the National Gallery of Art: The Gallery’s collection of American art includes nearly 400 works by African-American artists. This online tour offers commentary on a selection of twenty-two paintings, works on paper, and sculpture ranging from a colonial portrait by Joshua Johnson of Baltimore to modern and contemporary pieces by Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden,…

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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…

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  • Art and Social Activism, A Panel Discussion Hosted by the Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC)

    Art and Social Activism, A Panel Discussion Hosted by the Houston Museum of African American Culture (HMAAC) With the HMAAC panel discussion on Art and Social Activism, moderated by HMAAC CEO John Guess, Jr. and featuring noted artist and activist Danny Simmons and Syracuse University Professor and Community Folk Art Center Executive Director Kheli Willetts,…

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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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