• SUGA | Art Exhibition

  • Reflections of Blackness with Amiri Baraka

    BOOKMARK | SHARE | READ my latest article: “Reflections of Blackness with Amiri Baraka” that I wrote on Amiri Baraka for The Black Caucus of the American Library Asssociation’s Quarterly Newsletter. The newsletter is available for download for free: http://tinyurl.com/ofcdgnr

  • Collaboration: The Brooklyn Museum and The Race Card Project

      The Race Card Project partners with The Brooklyn Museum! The power of The Race Card Project is that it allows individuals to listen to each other. And in this case, it also allows The Brooklyn Museum to listen to its community and tap into the conversations that usually take place in private spaces. The…

  • Online Exhibit | Seeking to Tell a Story: Political Action from Slavery to Civil Rights

    Seeking to Tell a Story: Political Action from Slavery to Civil Rights is a digital exhibit featuring materials from several collections housed in AUC Woodruff Library’s Archives Research Center – including the Atlanta Student Movement and Maurice Pennington Political Cartoon Collections. The exhibit showcases the 1960s movement through photographs, flyers, news clippings, and correspondence. Visit…

  • Call for Papers for a Special Issue of American Periodicals on Black Periodical Studies

    Call for Papers for a special issue of American Periodicals Black Periodical Studies Guest Editors Eric Gardner and Joycelyn Moody The Fall 2015 issue of American Periodicals will be devoted to texts exploring the field of Black periodical studies and/or exploring issues in/of Black periodicals across the centuries, from Freedom’s Journal to Vibe and beyond.  We seek scholarship that considers the nexus…

  • Welcome to the dollhouse in Tiffany Gholar’s Fine Arts Building studio

    Tiffany Gholar’s studio in the Fine Arts Building is a riot of color—magentas, oranges, yellows, and greens detail cabinets, surfaces, and windowpanes. Even her outfit complements the room’s palette. The Chicago native discovered her knack for color concept in an unexpected way: “I was working at Nordstrom in the accessories department, helping people match different accessories to…

  • Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Julie Mehretu

    Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Julie Mehretu  Monday, April 21, 2014, 7:00pm Tickets: $15 public, $10 members, $5 students.  Alliance Theater | 1280 Peachtree St NE |  Atlanta, GA From high.org:  Join MacArthur Foundation Award–winning artist Julie Mehretu as she discusses her career and work, including the High Museum of Art’s recent acquisition, Mogamma (A Painting in Four…

  • COVER: Oscar Murillo / L’Officiel Art / Issue 9 / March – April – May 2014

    From L’Officiel Art: This ninth artist cover allows L’Officiel Art to go even more collector. For the first time, the logo has also been left to an artist’s reinterpretation. Oscar Murillo used this carte blanche to deliver a very personal work, which he conceived while he was working on his exhibition at the Mistake Room in Los Angelees. For the logo,…

  • Social in Practice: The Art of Collaboration

        Social in Practice: The Art of Collaboration On view at the Nathan Cummings Foundation  March 27 – October 2, 2014 Curated by Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas Organized by the Department of Photography & Imaging at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Through portraiture, documentary photography, audio-visual installations, personal narratives and community initiatives, Social in Practice:…

  • ART NOTES | Tupac Shakur

    You either evolve or disappear.