2 Live Stews Host Education Fundraiser at Bill Lowe Art Gallery

Throughout their 10-year career in broadcasting, radio personalities and brothers Doug and Ryan Stewart of the nationally syndicated sports talk show, The 2 Live Stews, have stood tall as community …

Harlem River Park Artwork Designed by Local Artists and Kids

Tylik Mejia wasn’t that excited about an opportunity to work with the Creative Arts Workshops for Kids to design a mural to attract people to Harlem River Park. “I declined …

‘At the Fights’: a heavyweight collection of American writers on boxing

‘At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing’ edited by George Kimball and John Schulian Library of America, 517 pp., $35 Blame it on Hemingway. George Kimball, in the introduction to …

Bookstore maintains link to African-American history

For 25 years Yusef Harris has promoted black awareness at Alkebu-Lan Images Bookstore, an independent bookstore that focuses on black history, education, self-help and spirituality. “I wanted products that reflect …

Isaac Murphy Memorial Art Garden gets Underway with Dig

Change, long discussed and planned, is taking shape and form these days in Lexington’s East End neighborhood. The latest evidence is materializing on a half-acre parcel of state-owned property near …

"spectrum: new visions from eight emerging artists"

The Museum of African American Art and absolutearts.com artist Synthia SAINT JAMES are pleased to present Spectrum: New Visions From Eight Emerging Artists, an exciting group exhibition featuring talented young …

Significant New Acquisitions at The Huntington

At the annual Art Collectors’ Council meeting, held this year on April 30, works by African-American artist Sargent Johnson and Ernest Lawson were highlights. Following this year’s meeting of The …

Palisades Gallery/Home Highlights Art of American Social Movements

Nestled in the hills of Pacific Palisades is a hidden treasure of social realist, Hispanic and African American art. By Sharon Cotal Operating out of the Pacific Palisades home of …

Detroit Institute of Art renames contemporary African American art gallery

The Detroit Institute of Arts will name its new gallery of contemporary African American art after a pioneering General Motors executive and his wife. The newly named Maureen and Roy …

Sunday Brunch this weekend, Mother’s Day. It’s the October Gallery Artful Sunday Brunch.

Art & Sunday Brunch at October Gallery Sunday, May 8 · 12:00pm – 6:00pm 6353 Greene Street, Phila, PA 19144 All you can eat in an ARTFUL environment Art, music, …

African-American Cultural Series at Acadiana Outreach

A month long series of musical performances, art workshops, inspirational and motivational speakers, authors and dance performances all free to the community Acadiana Outreach is planning a month long cultural …

Birmingham Museum of Art to hire curators for growing African-American collection

The Birmingham Museum of Art says it will use a $300,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to hire curators for its growing collection of African-American art. Museum director …

Best of the Arts Center in Dallas TX

South Dallas Cultural Center, located at 3400 S. Fitzhugh in Dallas TX has been North Texas’ best kept fine arts secret for nearly 25 years – an African American art …

The Montclair Art Museum Wins Two National Graphic Design Awards

Apr 29, 2011 – Graphic Design USA, a monthly news and information magazine for and about the professional design community, has honored the Montclair Art Museum (MAM) with American Inhouse …

Jim Crow exhibit delves into racist, hateful things

Seventeen people sat in a room in the Art Center of Battle Creek on Wednesday, intently watching the flickering image of a man in blackface dance in a loose-limbed, foolish …