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Meritocracy by Derek Fordjour
Meritocracy April 8 – May 1, 2015 JACK BELL GALLERY, 13 Mason’s Yard , St. James’s, London, UK – From Jack Bell Gallery: – Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present a solo show of work by New York based contemporary artist Derek Fordjour. In this new series of paintings the artist creates portraits using layers of…
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View Mural in East Baltimore Painted by Ernest Shaw
Mural in east Baltimore painted by the incredible artist Ernest Shaw. It is important to acknowledge the genius and talent that walks among us everyday. When little kids ask who are those people on the wall, the full answer will lead them into the discovery of their people and their history. — At 401 E.…
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A People’s History of Harlem | A Harlem Neighborhood Oral History Project
The New York Public Library Community Oral History Project presents “A People’s History of Harlem A Harlem Neighborhood Oral History Project” This is a neighborhood oral history project that works to both preserve and document Harlem history through the stories of people who have experienced it. This project will collect oral histories of people who…
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Museum of African Diaspora | “Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA”
— May 8 – Oct. 11, 2015 “Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA” @ Museum of African Diaspora | San Francisco This special “exhibition explores how portraiture has evolved from a form of personal identification to a genre as invested in fiction, subversion, stereotype, and fantasy as it is in the description of physical traits.”…
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Columbus Museum Presents | Curlee R. Holton Lecture
Event: Curlee Holton, Founder and Director, The Experimental Printmaking Institute lecture at the Columbus Museum April, 18th 2015 | The Unique Role that the Art of Printmaking Plays in the Contemporary World of Visual Communication Media. Special invited guest of Black Art In America. Click on video and listen to lecture. Article Republished Courtesy, Black Art In America
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An Evening with Video Performance Artist Ulysses S. Jenkins
— Since his early work with the Video Venice Collective in the 1970s, Ulysses S. Jenkins has been creating powerful work that provokes and boldly ask questions regarding of race, history and images. As University of Chicago Professor Jacqueline Stewart points out Jenkins’ work “critiques mass media representation (particularly of African American men) while exploring…
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Meet Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Winner for Poetry
Gregory Pardlo won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry on Monday for his book “Digest.” Read Article in NY TImes | Read Poem: “Double Dutch”
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KUSP’s Poetry Show ft. Jericho Brown, Guest poet
Listen to Radio Podcast Jericho Brown was a first-time guest on the Poetry Show for April 5, 2015. Host Dennis Morton sat down for an interview with the young poet, whose new published collection is titled The New Testament (Copper Canyon Press, 2014). The wide-ranging conversation encompassed much more than poetry, and was interspersed with…
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Jazz In Sesson: Kind of Blue, By Miles Davis | Watch Archived Interview with CBS
ABOUT THIS EVENT Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month! Join Jazz Arts Initiative and the Harvey B. Gantt Center as we launch Jazz in Session! Explore and revisit milestone recordings that helped shape America’s classical music: Jazz. Enjoy guided listening sessions and learn about the artists, their inspiration, other recordings and the musical era. Dr. Will Campbell, UNC…
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