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Spring 2024
Art In May; Haiku
Cracking spring in may
Help me with better input
whilst watching the art
by atlas brown
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A Moment of Silence for Award-Winning Actress, Ruby Dee
Ruby Dee, the award-winning actress whose seven-decade career included triumphs on stage and screen, has died. She was 91 and transitioned on Thursday, June 12, 2014. Famous Quotes by Ruby Dee: “The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.” “You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier,…
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Rufus Reid |Quiet Pride: The Elizabeth Catlett Project
Listen to tracks from the album (Quiet Pride: The Elizabeth Catlett Project) while reading this article. In the work of the late sculptress Elizabeth Catlett, bassist and composer Rufus Reid found emotional and physical revelations – and the inspiration to take on the mos ambitious project of his career It’s little wonder that Rufus…
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On the Cover Brotha | Online Archive of African American Males: Magazine Covers
“On the Cover Brotha” which archives magazine covers featuring black men. The covers and the men are as diverse and varied as the magazines featuring them as subjects. Page covers are featured from defunct black men’s magazines EM/Ebony Man, Code, and UNTOLD. Those magazines really and truly “represented” and I’m excited to share those…
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Shantrelle P. Lewis interviews Najee Dorsey Founder of Black Art In America
Najee Dorsey converses with a variety of characters, confronting past narratives, personal demons, resistance, and independence. He applies various 2-D and 3-D formats to manipulate representations of historic figures, antiques, folktales, and vintage photos that create a narrative about a misrepresented people. It is quite evident that Najee Dorsey is both a self-taught artist…
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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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