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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The Changing Complex Profile of Black Abstract Painters
Long marginalized by their community and overlooked by the art market, African American abstractionists are finally coming into the spotlight “Donald Judd didn’t have to explain himself. Why do I have to?” asks Jennie C. Jones, an African American abstract painter who has grappled with the issue of how her work can or should…
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Summer Lecture | Fat Man in Bronzeville: Archibald Motley’s Art
Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist Discover how Archibald Motley’s paintings have captured worldwide attention for their rainbow-hued, syncopated compositions, and discover their genesis in Chicago’s burgeoning black community during the interwar years. These frenetic, colorful canvases of middle-class sitting rooms, glittery cabarets, shadowy pool halls, neon-lit street scenes, and illicit “Black and Tan” clubs…
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Biggers and Pruitt are part of Art in Embassies Exhibition
Published on Jun 4, 2014 via SABC Digital News Earlier on the show we spoke to the US ambassador to South Africa, Patrick Gaspard about the Art in Embassies project that he is currently running with three American artists and two South African artist Mary Sibande and Nichola Hlobo. We are now joined by…
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New Works from Delita Martin | “I Come From Women Who Could Fly
New Works from Delita Martin: “I Come From Women Who Could Fly” is a series of large scale, mixed media works on paper. Inspired by oral story telling traditions, these images explore the space between realism and the fantastic. Throughout the works a variety of drawing mediums are used to interweave layers of texture, pattern, portraiture.…
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Ms. Pizzazz -aka- Dr. Maya Angelou
A Moment of Silence for the audacious Dr. Maya Angelou | (1928-2014).
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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