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The historic stone art of Tengenenge, a region located in northern Zimbabwe, may be barely 40 years old but it is breaching high-end ethnic boutique art and home accessories bastions …
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They collect discarded objects, such as tiny glass medicine bottles. One dyes tissue paper and creates floats of color. One goes to a quarry and uses volcanic rock to make …
Continue reading “‘Material Girls’: 8 African American artists update a tradition”
The Lake Wales Arts Council presents Against All Odds: The Art of the Highwaymen, an exhibit organized by the Orange County Regional History Center in Orlando, opening on Sept. 1 …
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Romare Bearden, the 20th Century master of collages capturing the African American experience, has long been a popular artist. Now everyone can have a tiny bit of his expressive art …
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Edith Marie Stanton Ingram relished meeting people and often incorporated what she learned from their stories in her writing and artwork. Mrs. Ingram, an accomplished artist and writer who published …
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What is Art? Ask anyone this simple question and see how many unique answers you will get. I had the opportunity to interview self-taught artist, Monroe Reeves from Baltimore, Maryland …
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Park Ave Summer Art fest opens View works from more than 300 artisans at the Chrysler Park Avenue Summer Art Fest. The event also features entertainment, food and activities from …
Framed by African American art, 18 local poets celebrated women at the Women’s Civic Improvement Club in Oak Park. The “Poetry and Spoken Word Explosion” on Wednesday night was a …
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Michael H. Hodges/ Detroit News Arts Writer “Tyree Guyton is a talented artist — an environmental sculptor. We have at least one piece of his hanging in our galleries right …
Afterschool stained glass art program with First United Methodist Church of Germantown featured in Center City before landing down the Bayou. This summer, Love Park, Independence Mall andGermantown High School …
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“With the recent financial cutbacks in education, the first disciplines to go are the arts,” said Frank Liu, “yet there’s a proven relationship between the ability of children to learn …
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Some of the hundreds of carved ivory tusks a Philadelphia art dealer is charged with smuggling into the country through Kennedy International Airport. Of the millions of tons of stuff …
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By Staff reports The Holland Sentinel Beginning Aug. 4, parents can enroll their child in the Center for African American Art and History’s after-school literacy program. The program is designed …
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IF you thought you had missed out on the independence-era euphoria of black conscious espoused in memoirs of African luminaries such as Nkrumah, Nyerere, Kaunda and literary critics like Wole …
Continue reading “Katulwende reignites negritude ‘Fires at the Core’”
“On the Shoulders of Giants” may very well be the quintessential Newark Black Film Festival movie. Mixing music, history, sports and the artistry of filmmaking, this documentary pulls together elements …
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