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Tag: Art
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2021 Emerging Scholars: Zora J Murff
With a focus on conveying anti-Black violence through photographs, Zora J Murffâs work is inspired by how images function as social objects. Some of his projects have focused on the juvenile criminal justice system, redlining in North Omaha and points of extreme anti-Black violence.
January 29, 2021
News Roundup
VCU Renames Fine Arts Building to Honor Former Dean Dr. Murry N. DePillars
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) announced plans to rename its fine arts building in honor Dr. Murry N. DePillars, the former School of the Arts dean. During his time as dean from 1976-1995, VCUâs School of the Arts became one of the largest art schools in the United States. Additionally, the school received increased funding while [âŠ]
January 8, 2021
African-American
Kevin Young Named as New Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Kevin Young, who is currently the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, has been named the new director of the Smithsonianâs National Museum of African American History and Culture. He will begin his new role in January. Young is a poet, author, essayist, and editor at The New Yorker magazine. This [âŠ]
October 5, 2020
Opinion
Three Considerations Concerning Art in Troubled Times
Art is therapy for our hurting souls. Art appeals to all that is real, ideal and sublime, the worst, best and wildest things in our imagination.
May 6, 2020
News Roundup
Dr. David Driskell, Influential Black Art Scholar and Artist, Dies at 88
Prominent African American artist and scholar, Dr. David C. Driskell, passed away on April 1 at age 88, said the University of Maryland, College Park. Considered one of the worldâs leading authorities on the subject of African American art, Driskell grew up in North Carolina and went to college at Howard University, said ARTnews. He [âŠ]
April 2, 2020
News Roundup
Two Top Bellevue College Administrators to Leave After Mural Alteration
Bellevue College president Jerry Weber and vice president of institutional advancement, Gayle Colston Barge, will leave the institution after a controversy over an altered mural on display on campus, reports The Columbian. Though itâs not clear whether they have been fired or resigned, the two are leaving after Barge altered an artist description of a [âŠ]
March 3, 2020
African-American
FAMU Professor Serves as Model for Rosa Parks Sculpture
Dr. Kimberly Brown Pellum, a Florida A&M University history professor, served as the model for a Rosa Parks sculpture recently unveiled in Montgomery, Alabama. The sculpture commemorates the 64th anniversary of the day police arrested Parks for refusing to give up her bus seat, then igniting the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott. The sculptor had asked [âŠ]
December 8, 2019
African-American
Prescott College Opens MFA Program at the Intersection of Art and Social Justice
Prescott College in Arizona announced a new Social and Environmental Arts Practice MFA program this week. The programâs curriculum will focus on the intersection of art, social justice and community organizing. The 48-credit online program will be led by Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and founder and chairperson of Reform [âŠ]
November 22, 2019
Students
Teen Artist Wins $30K Google College Scholarship
Arantza Peña Popo, a Georgia high school graduate from Columbia, won a $30,000 college scholarship in a âDoodle for Googleâ contest. Her high school, Arabia Mountain, will also receive $50,000 for a computer lab or technology program, according to an Associated Press article. For the competition, K-12 students crafted designs for Googleâs logo that reflected [âŠ]
August 14, 2019
Latest News
St. Catherine University Explores Octavia Butlerâs âParable of the Sowerâ
Reading African-American science fiction writer Octavia E. Butlerâs Parable of the Sower instilled in Ashley Chavez an understanding that âanyone and everyoneâ can make a change.
March 25, 2019
News Roundup
Couple Donates Inuit Art, Money to University of Michigan
ANN ARBOR, Mich. â Two longtime University of Michigan donors have given their collection of Inuit art and $2 million to the school to create a program to support related exhibitions, education and outreach. The Ann Arbor university announced that Philip and Kathy Power have donated the collection of roughly 200 Inuit stone sculptures and prints [âŠ]
April 2, 2018
Opinion
Art As Political Resistance
For many people, America feels heavy. Whether mounting political challenges or the general decline in civility, the daily and nearly hourly updates from the political world make it difficult to find a moment of solitude.
February 18, 2018
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