I received this message from quilter Kyra Hicks–check her out!
Over the weekend, Amazon.com published my short essay and quilt pattern, The Liberian Flag Story & Love of Liberty Quilt, over the weekend. And, it’s only 49 cents (smile!). Have you heard of Amazon Shorts? [I had not, but I ordered it!]
You can find mine at:http://www.amazon.com/Liberian-Flag-Story-Liberty-Quilt/dp/B000QUCNWM [...]
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(spotted at Stereohyped)
Black Honor Student Protests ‘Eurocentric’ Curriculum
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You can enlarge this invite by clicking on it.GO SEE THIS SHOW!I loves me some Zoe.
Silverstein Photography is pleased to announce If You Reading This, the first New York solo exhibition of works by the photographer and installation artist Zoe Strauss. This exhibition is a midterm review featuring the artist’s ongoing “I-95” project, which Strauss [...]
i highly recommend this film; it’s one of the best documentaries I’ve seen
Greetings Everyone:
I’m writing to invite everyone (who’s based in the Bay Area) to twoSan Francisco Women Against Rape organized screenings of NO! (The Rape Documentary) on Thursday May 17 and Saturday, May 19.
For me, the purpose of these two screenings is to definitely raiseawareness abount intra-racial rape and sexual assault, while raisingmoney for SFWAR.
NO ONE [...]
when the studio museum is clearly your only measure for african american representation
Art Review ‘Let Your Motto Be Resistance’The Glittering A-List of Black History
By HOLLAND COTTERPublished: May 11, 2007
“Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits” at the International Center of Photography is a praise song in pictures, a shoutout to history. It’s also a fancy-dress inaugural party for the yet-to-be-built National Museum of African American [...]
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- PITCH BLACKNESS BY HANK WILLIS THOMAS (APERTURE, 2008) December 8, 2008Pitch Blackness. Hank Willis Thomas, Aperture, October 2008, 128 Pages, ca. 125 four-color images, 8×10 inches (20×25 cm), ISBN: 978-1-59711-072-3, Hardcover, $35 On February 2, 2000, Songha Thomas Willis was shot to death outside a Philadelphia nightclub. He was 27 years old. The takeaway? A $400 gold chain. It’s the story [...]
- Hank Willis Thomas interview December 4, 2008Check out this interview with Hank Willis Thomas in PhotoEye magazine online, http://www.photoeye.com/magazine/features/2008/12_03_Hank_Willis_Thomas.cfm, in which he talks about his monograph Pitch Blackness.
- Obama at #15 November 24, 2008Poli-Book Best Seller List Based on sales for weeks ending Oct. 25 through Nov. 15, 2008 15. Obama, by Deborah Willis and Kevin Merida. (Amistad, $26.95.) Photographs capturing Obama’s 18-month campaign to the presidency. Rankings reflect aggregated sales for the weeks ending October 25 through November 15, 2008 at many thousands of venues where a wide range of [...]
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- Updates from Simone Leigh November 7, 2008Archeology of Wonder curated by Kristina Newman-Scott REAL ART WAYS October 4, 2008 —January 4, 2009 Opening reception: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 4-7PM Performance by Valerie Garlick, 4:30PM Closing reception: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 3-5PM 56 Arbor St Hartford CT 06106 860 232 1006 www.realartways.org Archaeology of Wonder brings together two disparate approaches to the past - archaeology with its meticulous discipline, and wonder with [...]
- Fall Exhibitions: ?Evocations? at Rose Issa Projects, London? Kala Fellowship Exhibition, Berkeley November 7, 2008I have a few projects coming up to share with you. I will be at Kala’s opening this Thursday, October 9, in Berkeley, and on October 20 at the artist reception for my first exhibition in London. Presented by Rose Issa, I will be exhibiting works from a number of series including The Alphabet of Silence, Most Wanted [...]