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All Mississippi residents with proper identification will be admitted free to the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art on Labor Day, Sept. 5. Come and visit Phase I of the Frank Gehry-designed campus and view the artistic works of mixed media artist and Mississippi native William Dunlap, photographer Herman Leonard and Mississippi potter Brian Nettles. And, of …
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 across the world. A collection of 50 abstract Zimbabwean sculptures crafted in serpentine, high-density hard smooth black stone, spring stone and opal is in India …
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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 sculptures. Another sees beauty in the hardness and blackness of tires. A group of African American women are paying homage to the generations-old tradition of …
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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 and running through Oct. 13. The exhibit features paintings by all 26 Highwaymen as well as a painting by A.E. “Beanie” Backus, an accomplished Florida …
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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 with a new series of stamps to be issued by the U.S. Postal Service. The Postal Service announced Tuesday the stamps will be available September …
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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 a historical novel in 2004 in tribute to her great-grandmother, a free African-American property holder in the early 1850s, died July 20 at the Metro …
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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 on his insights concerning art. With such a broad question, Monroe responded passionately. “Art is the pulse of creation, change, movement that stimulates. It can …
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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 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday on Park Avenue. Admission is free. For details, go to rochesterevents.com. Heritage …
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 fitting tribute to the club – the oldest black women’s organization west of the Mississippi River – as it celebrates 75 years of public service. …
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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 now. I am surprised the project has lasted this long. But I think you only have to meet Tyree once to realize this is a …
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 students are linked by an unexpected medium: stained glass. Throughout August, student artwork is being displayed in Center City—currently at theFairmont Park Welcome Center at …
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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 and exposure to the arts. The arts are the last things that should go.” Liu is referring to Houston’s public school system and its recent …
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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 that comes through Kennedy International Airport in travelers’ suitcases each year, some of it is not supposed to be there. Like the tusks of hundreds …
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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 to assist kindergarten through third grade students in reaching their grade level in reading while introducing them to the historical African American experience. The program …
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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 Soyinka; Katulwende’s The Fire at the Core re-ignites the tired and somewhat clichéd pro-negritude arguments but now with a tantalising domestication of classical Grecian philosophy …
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