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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PROJECT SERIES 50: Brenna Youngblood
PROJECT SERIES 50: Brenna Youngblood Now Through – May 17, 2015 POMONA COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART 330 North College Avenue Claremont, CA Brenna Youngblood creates evocative and moody abstract paintings and sculptures that subtly examine representation and the multiplicity of meaning. By combining materials such as canvas, found papers, panel, faux wood, and acrylic paint with…
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The Unknown Notebooks of Jean-Michel Basquiat
From The New York Times: The Unknown Notebooks of Jean-Michel Basquiat Graffitist, painter, actor, poet: The late artist’s rarely seen personal writings and sketches are expressions of 1980s downtown New York, and, perhaps, of his truest vision. Full Story: http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/jean-michel-basquiat-notebooks/?ref=t-magazine Art Exhibit: “Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks,” opens on April 3. April 3–August 23, 2015, Brooklyn Museum,…
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Interventions in Printmaking: Three Generations of African American Women
Interventions in Printmaking: Three Generations of African-American Women Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley — This exhibition features artists from throughout the United States and the African diaspora who have brokered new technologies and approaches to printmaking while addressing issues pertaining to history, identity, and politics. In works ranging from the representational to the…
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Professor Farah Griffin Examines Three Pioneering Women Artists in 1940s Harlem
— When Farah Griffin asked her mother what she remembered about World War II, her response was, “All the handsome soldiers who drove the buses in Philadelphia.” Griffin, the William B. Ransford Professor of English, Comparative Literature and African American Studies, was perplexed. Then she thought, of course, she was a teenager, she remembers handsome…
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Gee’s Bend: From Quilts to Prints at the Sheldon Museum of Art
—- Gee’s Bend: From Quilts to Prints Date(s): Now through May 17, 2015 In 2002 the widely acclaimed touring exhibition The Quilts of Gee’s Bend brought to the attention of the art world the bold, improvisational quilts made by generations of women from the rural community of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Less well known are a series…
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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