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  • Solo exhibition, Philemona Williamson: Metaphorical Narratives at the Montclair Art Museum

    From June Kelly Gallery: Hovering Tales, an exhibition of new paintings by Philemona Williamson — visual narratives that intrigue with disquieting depictions of the edginess of imagination and curiosity between adolescence and adulthood – will open at the June Kelly Gallery, 166 Mercer Street, on October 13. The exhibition will remain on view until November…

  • Read: With Costumes and Camp, Genevieve Gaignard Is Telling New Stories about Race and Beauty

     From Artsy.net Genevieve Gaignard turns our expectations about race and beauty upside down. She’s known for campy, costumed self-portraits in which she masquerades as a shape-shifting cast of characters: a leopard-print clad babe with a hairspray-stiff bouffant; a young woman decked with long braids, gold hoops, and a shirt emblazoned with the words “Hoodrat Thangs.”…

  • Feedback: Change for the African American Museum & Library at Oakland (AAMLO)

    From Oakland Public Library Blog: The African American Museum and Library at Oakland is dedicated to the discovery, preservation, interpretation, and sharing of historical and cultural experiences of African Americans in California and the West for present and future generations. In 1946, Eugene and Ruth Lasartemay and Jesse and Dr. Marcella Ford began collecting the oral…

  • Read: Acid Free, a Quarterly Online Publication of the Los Angeles Archivists Collective

    From Los Angeles Archivists Collection: The varying interpretations of ORGANIZE have proven to be more permeable than we may have initially realized. While it is necessary to acknowledge and critique traditional classification and organizational systems that reinforce existing power structures, for many of us what is inspiring and at the heart of our work is…

  • Film: Black Intimacy at The Museum of Modern Art

    From MoMA: Black Intimacy explores the ways in which black familial, romantic, and platonic relationships have been portrayed onscreen, with a particular focus on black filmmakers’ attempts at navigating between intimate, personal stories and more broadly political material. Given the legacy of American racial politics, can black love be portrayed onscreen without “making a statement” about…

  • Event: Schomburg Center Fall Open House: Revival of SOUL

    Description from The Schomburg: Soul has been used to describe cities, rhythms, collective power, and the ultimate place of change. Visit the Schomburg Center for an institution-wide escapade through the many facets of soul embodied in black experiences archived at the Schomburg over the last 91 years. With performances, conversations, and special exhibits from our…

  • News: Introducing the Atlanta Black Archives Alliance COURTNEY CHARTIER, EMORY UNIVERSITY

    From atlanta studies:   In order to address this need, the Atlanta Black Archives Alliance (ABAA) was founded in early 2017 by a group of Atlanta-area archivists actively working with historical materials documenting African Americans.1Our goal is to share our city’s unique and valuable resources on black history and culture to as wide an audience…

  • Exhibition: Magnetic Fields is the first museum exhibit in the US to show abstract artwork created exclusively by women of color

    From kemper Museum of Contemporary Art: Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today introduces the work of more than twenty exceptional artists in conversation with one another for the first time. With works in a range of media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, and drawing, the exhibition showcases a diverse range of unique visual vocabularies within non-representational expression. By highlighting…

  • Reflection: Activist, Speaker, and Comedienne Richard Claxton “Dick” Gregory Transitions at 84 Years Old

      “I’m not a comic. I am a humorist.” Richard Claxton ‘”Dick” Gregory was born on October 12, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri. He would rise from poverty and become one of the most prolific outspoken voices of his generation. Mr. Gregory was an international speaker, writer, comedienne, activist, social critic and entrepreneur. We celebrate…

  • Read: Letter from the President of the Association of African American Museums about Charlottesville, VA

    From the President of AAAM: On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Association of African American Museums, we emphatically condemn the hate-driven speech and violence that recently shook Charlottesville, VA. Participants in the scheduled ‘Unite the Right’ rally employed a dizzying, and often contradictory, array of white nationalist ideologies, revisionist historical interpretations, and…