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Greg Perkins, President and Founder of AAE Definition and Overview Black art constitutes a very diverse legacy, although many observers have a habit of generalizing what black art is. We are talking about a continent that is filled with civilizations, people, and societies, each of which has a special culture. Defining black art also …
As I stated in a previous post about African-American masters, I love me some North Carolina artists… The Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC is currently holding an exhibit for the renowned black artist and painter Lois Mailou Jones. The exhibit is entitled (appropriately enough) Lois Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color and …
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By Lisa Desjardins, CNN Radio Senior Correspondent Washington (CNN) – Few might realize it, but Tuesday’s primary elections might have quietly sealed the racial and ethnic makeup of the U.S. Senate for a couple of more years. On Tuesday, C. Anthony Muse, thought to be the strongest black candidate for U.S. Senate this year, …
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By AsianWeek Staff – April 4, 2012Posted in: Art, Arts-Entertainment, News Andrew Lam The Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network (DVAN) and the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (APICC) present the Third San Francisco Vietnamese American Poetry & Art Festival, a premiere showcase for Vietnamese American writers and artists. The event is scheduled for Saturday, April 28 …
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Forty-four years ago today, my beloved friend and America’s soul and conscience, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated while standing on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. The night before, April 3rd, 1968, during s speech at the Mason Temple, Church of God in Christ, in Memphis, he said: “We got some difficult …
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Dates: January 28 – April 15, 2012 Location: Annenberg and Tuttleman Galleries, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) was a mentor and role model for younger artists during his lifetime and has been a source of pride for many generations of artists since his death. This installation, drawn largely from PAFA’s collection …
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In observance of African American History Month, the Library of Virginia, in partnership with Capital One Financial Corporation, is honoring eight distinguished Virginians as the 2011 African American Trailblazers in Virginia History for their contributions to Virginia and the nation. The 2011 honorees will be celebrated Feb. 24, 6 pm at an awards program …
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Art Preview Tuesday, January 18, 2011 By Virginia Linn, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Vivian Davidson Hewitt Vivian Hewitt turns 91 on Feb. 17, but she seemed unfazed last week about leaving her Upper West Side apartment in snow-buried New York City to travel here this week to talk about her lifelong passion. Mrs. Hewitt, a New …
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Perils of rural Zimbabwe life depicted in art
As an adolescent superhero of black and Latino origin, Miles Morales strikes a blow for multiculturalism in the pages of Marvel Comics‘ “Ultimate Comics Spider-Man.” And there’s just as much diversity behind those comic-book panels as inside them. The title’s writer, Brian Michael Bendis, and his wife, who are white, have two adopted daughters, one from …
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By MARY ROURKE AND VALERIE J. NELSON Los Angeles Times Elizabeth Catlett, a sculptor and printmaker who is widely considered one of the most important African-American artists of the 20th century despite having lived most of her life in Mexico, has died. She was 96. Catlett, whose sculptures became symbols of the civil rights movement, …
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MEXICO CITY—Sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett, a U.S. expatriate renowned for her dignified portrayals of African-American and Mexican women and who was barred from her home country for political activism during the McCarthy era, has died. She was 96. Maria Antonieta Alvarez, Catlett’s daughter-in-law, said the artist died Monday in a house in Cuernavaca, …
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