They’re telling stories in Dallas
“Tales Through Time: A Storytelling Event” will take place from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Gaston County Museum of Art & History. The free program, sponsored by a …
Visions of Life, Built From Bits and Pieces
Romare Bearden (1911-88) spent more than 30 years striving to be a great artist, and in the early 1960s, when he took up collage in earnest, he became one. A …
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Artist listens to music for creative inspiration
When Debora Oden paints, she often listens to music by Erykah Badu or Ella Fitzgerald, finding creative inspiration that takes her own art to a higher level of expression. “Often, …
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David Driskell Prints, Part II
By ROGER CATLIN It’s the season of David C. Driskell in Connecticut museums. In New Haven, a student-chosen exhibit “Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art …
Poets and Painters Complement, Combine at Downtown Columbia Art Exhibit
By David Greisman The obvious, cliched route in starting off an article about a gallery exhibit featuring artwork and poetry alongside each other would be to begin with the familiar …
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ROMARE BEARDEN: COLLAGE
By Culturekiosque Staff NEW YORK, 27 MARCH 2011 — The American artist Romare Bearden’s oeuvre of more than 2,000 known works in many media reveals the diverse influences of earlier …
‘We Are the Ship’ art exhibit shows baseball’s segregated past
By Rodger Mullen Growing up, artist Kadir Nelson was not a big baseball fan. Considering that he has devoted much of his career to the sport, it’s a little ironic. …
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Black Film Fesitval kicks off
by Katelyn Hackett Wilmington– The North Carolina Black Film Festival kicked off on Thursday night. People filed into the Cameron Art Museum for the free reception. In its tenth year …
Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria Tours World Museums
By: Gabriella Osamor Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria presents a major part of the extraordinary corpus of ancient Ife art in terra-cotta, stone, and metal, dating from …
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Ford Foundation Gives a Major Contribution of $3 Million to African Art Museum
by:Elsie McCabe Thompson NEW YORK, N.Y.- Elsie McCabe Thompson, president, the Museum for African Art, announced that the Museum has received a major contribution of $3 million from the Ford …
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The Center for African American History
by Dr. Jeff Donaldson Dr. Jeff Donaldson, was a founding member of Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) and African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCobra). He was born December …
The Center for African American History
by Dr. Murry DePillars Dr. Murry N. DePillars was born in Chicago in 1938. He earned a B.A. in art education and an M.A. in urban studies from Roosevelt University …
Art, Artists and Art Criticism
by: Emmanuel Jegede This article is focused on some issues concerning contemporary art and its practitioners and art critics as it relates to Nigeria from 1950 to date. In any …
Contemporary Visual Art from Ghana
by George Hughes Museums and galleries all over the world regard traditional African art of high aesthetic value. A reputation ignited by the overwhelming influence African art had on modernist …
History on South African Art
by: South-African-art.com South African has a rich history of art with the oldest art objects in the world being discovered in a South African cave. Dating from 75,000 years ago, …