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Article: Artist Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle Explores Politics of the Female Body
From Essence.com Article By LATOYA CROSS, FEBRUARY 21, 2017 On the first day of a class trip to Spain, interdisciplinary visual artist Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle and a friend got lost in the red-light district of Madrid. “I was constantly assumed to be a prostitute because I looked the way that I looked,” Hinkle recalls. The experience…
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Live Cinema Performance, with Lisa Harris on March 4th at the Aurora Picture Show
From Aurora Picture Show: Cry of the Third Eye and Children of the Lost are two acts of an eventual three-act performed opera film by artist Lisa Harris that considers gentrification, displaced youth, and metaphysical reality in the historic Third Ward District of Houston. Harris–the writer, director, composer, and performer–musically narrates and orchestrates the semi-silent films…
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Exhibition | Alice Neel, Uptown
From the David Zwirner Gallery Alice Neel, Uptown explores Neel’s interest in the extraordinary diversity of twentieth century New York City and the people amongst whom she lived. The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945…
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Exhibition: Jordan Casteel: Harlem Notes
From Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Art + Culture ABOUT THIS EXHIBITION Jordan Casteel: Harlem Notes is an exhibition of recent paintings by Harlem-based artist, Jordan Casteel. These detailed portraits explore intimacy and the immortalization of her subjects. Each painting hints at a treasure trove of stories and memories shared between Casteel and her…
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Online Exhibition | Silent Intensity: African Americans in Southeast Missouri Farms
From The Arts At Page Library The Arts At Page Library presents their online African American history, photography exhibition entitled, The Silent Intensity: African Americans in Southeast Missouri Farms. The online exhibition features an array of documentary photographs that tell a story about the conditions during the Great Depression, in which African Americans lived and…
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#freebooks | The Red Record By Ida B. Wells
From The Arts At Page Library Download a free ebook this month entitled, The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells. Annotation (Digital History.uh.edu): After the Civil War, many black men were lynched in the South. In 1892, Ida B. Wells, a black journalist in Memphis…
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Black History 2017: African American Arts Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Honored by Google Doodle
From Google Doodle Edmonia Lewis wasn’t afraid to reshape convention. As the first woman of African American and Native American heritage to achieve international fame as a sculptor, Lewis is known for incorporating African American and Native American cultural themes into her Neoclassical style sculpture. Born in New York in 1844 to a father of…
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