ART REVIEW: "No Boundaries" at Baobab
By Rebecca Rafferty The Baobab Cultural Center gives voice to local and regional African-American concerns, joys, and visual talents more frequently than the designated annual Black History Month. Year round, …
African folk art collection hangs in Natchez museum
by:Jennifer Edwards PAM FINLEY holds a carving done by a New Orleans artist that is part of the African-American folk art owned by her and her husband, John Finley, at …
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Art and History Meet in African-American Exhibit at Museum
by: Margaret Burroughs FAITH LAPIDUS: The National Museum of African American History and Culture is presenting the exhibit. It is called “The Kinsey Collection: Shared Treasures of Bernard and Shirley …
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THE ART INSIDE OF ME!!!!!
I am a professional artist from Philadelphia,Pa. I am focused on providing high-quality service and customer satisfaction. I’m also focus to help my customers feel better. I can draw portraits,logos …
THE ART INSIDE OF ME!!!!!
Thank you for visiting my website. Art Inside Of Me is focused on providing high-quality service and customer satisfaction – I will do everything I can to meet your expectations. …
Black History Museum: The Nobility of the everyday
By MAUREEN ELGERSMAN LEE Before I moved to Virginia three and a half years ago, I started an intellectual journey unlike any I had embarked on before. The goal was …
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Artist Explores African American Experience on Canvas
By Karla Dorweiler “The most consistent theme in my work is that of visibility because I recognize that historically black people have generally been rendered invisible,” Best writes. That theme …
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Artist Talk: Shantrelle Lewis
By C. Zawadi Morris New Orleans Native and Bed-Stuy resident Shantrelle P. Lewis is the director of public programming and exhibitions at the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI). …
A Black History Moment: Synthia St. James, Fine Artist, Illustrator, Designer, Author
by Rev. Irene Monroe Synthia Saint James (1949 – ) Fine Artist, Illustrator, Designer, Author You may not know her name, but you have seen her paintings everywhere from gift …
Artist Captures Artists in Local Show, B. jAXON wants to keep the legacy of African American blues and jazz alive.
By Jim Caroompas The faces say it all – the sorrows, passions, joys, pain, are all there in the folds of the face, and most of all in the eyes. …
Pianist Kimberly Cann, 29, makes a musical mark on Asheville
How does a young classical pianist new to Asheville find a place in this area’s flourishing, some would say crowded, music scene? For 29-year-old Kimberly Cann, who moved here two …
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Ala. Amistad Murals to go on nationwide tour
Ala. Murals depicting the famed slave revolt aboard the trading ship Amistad, which have hung on the campus of Talladega College for more than 70 years, are soon going on …
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Keeping a Bucks sculptor’s legacy alive
A new scholarship this fall at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts honors the late Selma Burke, a Bucks County sculptor whose work is familiar if you’ve ever studied …
Thornton Township Black History Program Honors Dr. Margaret Burroughs
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 9:14 AM CST Thornton Township paid tribute to the late Dr. Margaret Burroughs, artist, poet, teacher and co-founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History …
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Malcolm X’s Daughter Extradited to New York
By Kirsten West Savali Malikah Shabazz, youngest daughter of iconic human rights activist, El Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X), has been extradited from North Carolina to New York City to …
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