Fair Park Museum Dedicated To African-American Art, Culture, History « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

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Fair Park Museum Dedicated To African-American Art, Culture, History « CBS Dallas / Fort Worth

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – When the doors opened at 11 a.m. Wednesday morning, a group of seniors from Dallas’ Kiest Park Senior Center were hopping off a DART bus, heading for their first tour.
Minnie Redmond had never visited the African American Museum before Wednesday.
When she stepped from one image of legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson to another, she focused not only on the popular exhibition, but the creators of the art.
“It’s great.  I’m really enjoying it”, the Sunday school teacher said.
Redmond now joins a list of thousands who’ve visited the Fair Park-based museum. The AAM is a popular cultural museum, dedicated to the preservation and magnification of African American contributions to art, culture and history.
It offers four distinctive gallery halls, where national exhibitions are provided to the public.  There is one permanent gallery hall dedicated to the history of Black Dallas.
“Facing The Rising Sun-Freedman’s Cemetery” focuses on Dallas’ first established community at the turn of the 20th Century.

Human Rights v. Civil Rights: The Legacy of Bayard Rustin

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Human Rights v. Civil Rights: The Legacy of Bayard Rustin

On Friday, March 30, 2012, the American Constitution Society for Law & Policy (ACS) and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture will host a panel in celebration of Bayard Rustin’s hundredth birthday.  Rustin was a civil rights trailblazer, a passionate advocate for equality, and an early champion for LGBT rights.  Early in the Civil Rights Movement, he identified the larger issue of attaining social and economic equality, emphasizing broader “human rights” as being an essential second phase of the Civil Rights Movement.  But, after a burst of stunning advances in the legal equality of all Americans, the United States never moved beyond civil rights toward the acceptance of a broader human rights framework.  What kept the United States from embracing Rustin’s viewpoint and, more importantly, what can our society do to move toward greater equality in the future? 

Upcoming Programs at The Schomburg Center

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Upcoming Programs at The Schomburg Center

Join Professor Alondra Nelson, Jonathan Metzl, MD/PhD, and medical ethicist Harriet Washington for a conversation on race and health in America. These three noted experts on health care and distinguished authors will discuss how access to quality health care—or in far too many cases, any health care at all—often falls along racial lines and is an issue that activists, beginning with the Black Panthers, have been fighting for decades.
$15 for non-members; $10 for members, Friends and students – For ticket charge, call 1-888-71-Tickets or visit ShowClix.com
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Sannu Niger!

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The capture last week of Saif al-Islam Qaddafi who, disguised as a Tuareg, was trying to flee to Niger — where one of his brothers and some high-ranking officials have found refuge — has turned a spotlight on a country few people have heard of.

“Niger? You mean Nigeria?” No Niger, the largest country in West Africa. “The country of the Nigerians?” No, the country of the Nigeriens.

I have visited Niger several times and always came back with wonderful memories… and exceptional crafts. It is one of the most fascinating places I know.

Sannu (hello) Niger!

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Children’s Book Highlights Black Achievements

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What do the inventor of the potato chip, open-heart surgery and the induction telegraph have in common?

They were all African-Americans. And all three (among many others) are featured in the newest book by basketball-great-turned-historian Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, “What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-Americans.”

Written for children of middle-school age, the book highlights little-known achievements by African-American innovators, while continuing Abdul-Jabbar’s interest in a version of U.S. history that is, as he has put it, not all “Thomas Edison and other white guys.”

Speaking of Edison: “What Color Is My World?” gives due treatment to Lewis Howard Latimer, who toiled under Alexander Graham Bell and worked on many of the innovations for incandescent lighting that Edison would later incorporate into one of the great inventions of modernity. But while Edison went on to immortality, Latimer was thanklessly relegated to oblivion.

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Let The Good Times Roll by James Denmark

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James Denmark was born in Winter Haven, Florida on March 23, 1936 into a family of Artists. He was exposed to color and form at an early age by his grandmother, a wire sculptor and quilt artist, by his grandfather, a bricklayer noted for his unique custom design molds and his mother who was gifted with an intuitive feeling for design and a fastidiousness for detail which she expressed in all aspects of her daily life. This rich beginning is the root of James Denmark’s creative expression.

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Solo by James Denmark

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Solo by James Denmark

“Solo” by James Denmark
Edition size=185
Medium: Hand Pulled Serigraph
Paper: Two Ply Museum Board
Image size=30″w x 22″h

Retail Price: 1200

James Denmark, born in Winter Haven, Florida in 1936, is part of an artistic family. He was exposed to color and form at an early age by his grandmother, a wire sculptor and quilt artist. His grandfather was a bricklayer noted for his unique custom designed molds and his mother was gifted with an intuitive eye for design and detail. This rich beginning is the root of James Denmark’s creative expression.

Cut Flowers by James Denmark

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James Denmark was born in Winter Haven, Florida on March 23, 1936 into a family of Artists. He was exposed to color and form at an early age by his grandmother, a wire sculptor and quilt artist, by his grandfather, a bricklayer noted for his unique custom design molds and his mother who was gifted with an intuitive feeling for design and a fastidiousness for detail which she expressed in all aspects of her daily life. This rich beginning is the root of James Denmark’s creative expression.

 

Post No Bills by Karen Powell

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CHALLENGING THE EDGE

I am always intrigued when I follow an artist’s body of work and then see her break away from her comfort zone of familiar materials, color palettes, applications and subject matter. I would always think, “what a courageous and difficult thing to do.” And now here I am, in the midst of my own renaissance, embracing the energy of a new inspiration. My newest series is one of exploration and experimentation and translates as excitement, magic and a new adventure.

My new abstract collection represents this new departure: a fearless sense of unknown territory. I have a fresh appreciation for color, line, texture and movement. Ironically, these abstracts have always existed in my work as a foundation for my mixed media images but now they stand alone vibrating, pulsating, reaching and swirling in a very lyrical way.

As an artist I continue to challenge my edge: In order for me to grow, I must reach beyond the familiar.

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