NATIONAL POETRY MONTH 2024
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Call for Work | Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute
— CALL FOR WORK Now accepting independent film entries for the 11th annual Langston Hughes African American Film Festival (LHAAFF) festival. The festival will run from April 26 to May 3. DEADLINE Friday, February 14, 2014. GENRES/SUBJECT AREAS Films in the following categories will be accepted: narrative, documentary, children/youth, youth-made movies, LGBTQ, experimental, and animation.…
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COVER: Toyin Odutola / ARTnews / January 2014
Ballpoint Is on a Roll Accessible and affordable, the ballpoint pen has become the medium of choice for artists to make obsessive abstractions, extreme drawings, and playful riffs on venerated ink traditions Text | Trent Morse Excerpt: “Last August, Toyin Odutola brought a stack of ballpoint pens and markers into the Asian Art Museum in…
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Up Close & Personal: Meet Classy Curator, Constance White
Constance White is no stranger to the art world. The classy and artsy curator was recently featured in the San Diego Online Magazine about what make her fashionable. White is a native of Texas and currently is the Art Program Manager at San Diego International Airport. Neighborhood: North Pacific Beach Age: 42 Current job: Art program manager for San Diego…
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Holding Court with Thelma Golden Feb 9, 2014
The Studio Museum invites artists living or working in Harlem to join Director and Chief Curator Thelma Golden to review their work and discuss their artistic endeavors. From 12 to 3pm on Sunday, February 9, Golden will hold fifteen-minute meetings with ten artists selected through a lottery system. Activating artist Theaster Gates’s work See, Sit, Sup,…
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Angélique Kidjo’s Featured Spread in the New York Times
I received my first copy (CD) of Angélique Kidjo’s work when she performed at the Gypsy Tea Room in Dallas, Texas. My godmother took me to see the concert and I stood in line for a long time to get my CD cover signed. I had just turned 25 years old. I will never forget…
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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