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  • ART TALK | FREE TO SPEAK! A Convening on Art, Slavery, and Reconciliation

    UMMA is hosting “Free To Speak!”, an event featuring artists Theaster Gates, Adebunmi Gbadebo, writer Nikky Finney, and curator Monica O. Montgomery, to celebrate diversity and address racial injustices.

  • ART Scholarships | The 2023-2024 E J Josey Scholarship Award Committee seeks essay submissions

    The E. J. Josey Scholarships offers $2000 unrestricted grants to African American students in ALA-accredited programs, focusing on diversity and inclusion. Apply by January 12, 2024.

  • ART Exit | Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette, President and CEO of Newfields, Resigns

    Colette Pierce Burnette has resigned as president and CEO of Newfields, which includes the Indianapolis Museum of Art, after 15 months. The board chair, Darrianne Christian, commended her community-building and advocacy efforts.

  • ART Music | “New Blue Sun” | By Andre 3000

    On November 17, 2023, Epic Records released “New Blue Sun,” the much-awaited debut solo album from André 3000, also known as Andre Benjamin. The album, spotlighting a collaboration between many renowned artists, redefines contemporary hip-hop.

  • Art Quote | By Alain Leroy Locke

    “Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.” – Alain Leroy Locke, Writer, Philosopher, Educator Image Courtesy of Wikipedia: Photograph of Alain Locke, The Broad Ax. (Salt Lake City, Utah), 13 Jan. 1912. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress

  • ART News | Thelma Golden Bestowed with the Gish Prize

    THELMA GOLDEN AWARDED THE DOROTHY LILLIAN GISH PRIZE Thelma Golden, the esteemed director and chief curator of the renowned Studio Museum in Harlem, has been honored as the recipient of the prestigious thirtieth Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. This remarkable achievement marks Golden as the inaugural institutional leader to be bestowed with the esteemed $250,000…

  • ART Journal | The co-editors of Libraries: Culture, History, and Society seek a Managing Editor

    November 2023 Libraries: Culture, History, and Society seeks a Managing Editor Now Accepting Applications! The co-editors of Libraries: Culture, History, and Society seek a Managing Editor, who will also serve on the journal’s Board of Associate Editors.Libraries: Culture, History, and Society (LCHS) is the official peer-reviewed journal of the Library History Round Table of the…

  • ART literati | Authors in the Afternoon: Rob Eschmann and Jelani Cobb Discuss “When the Hood Comes Off”

    Description: Authors in the Afternoon Authors in the Afternoon is CBH’s new daytime book talk series. Programs are followed by an informal conversation with the featured author. Jelani Cobb (The New Yorker, Dean of Columbia Journalism School) and Rob Eschmann (Columbia University, Harvard University) will discuss Eschmann’s new book, When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital…

  • ART Class | STUDENT NIGHT, EXPLORING HENRY TAYLOR: B SIDE

    A woman and child stand next to each other both wearing dresses. Henry Taylor, the dress, ain’t me, 2011. Acrylic on canvas, 84 1/4 × 72 in. (214 × 183 cm) About the Art Work From the Whitney Museum of American Art Special Event: Wednesday, November 157:30–9:30 pm College and graduate students are invited to join the museum…

  • ART Rewind | “The Craft of Blackness Kickoff ft. Derrick Austin & jzl jmz” by CAAPP”

    Description: THE CRAFT OF BLACKNESS Event 1 in CAAPP’s newest Black Study—THE CRAFT OF BLACKNESS — ft. Derrick Austin & jzl jms in creative conversation. There esteemed guests shared new work and participated in a moderated conversation. The Center for African American Poetry & Poetics’ (CAAPP)  series, The Craft of Blackness,  is a week-long collection of events…