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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

Women to Watch: Photography in Philadelphia

Featuring new or recent work by five established and three emerging women artists
The Galleries at Moore College and The Pennsylvania State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) are collaborating to present an exhibition of outstanding women photographers from Philadelphia. Curated by Susan Fisher Sterling, Deputy Director and [...]

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Shoot Films, Not People Productions Events

SILENCE: IN SEARCH OF BLACK FEMALE SEXUALITY IN AMERICA IS SCREENING TONIGHT
Shoot Films, Not People Productions and the BLFC
DATE: October 24, 2007
TIME: 8:00pm
LOCATION: Jilani’s Resturant, 507 Waverly (1 block from Washington Ave.), Brooklyn, [...]

Ernest Withers, focus on civil rights By Claire Noland Los Angeles Times San Jose Mercury News Article Launched:
Ernest C. Withers, a photographer who documented more than 60 years of black history by capturing visual images [...]

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(I’m going back to the bookstore to look for this in San Fran because I couldn’t find it before.)

Greetings,

I’m so late, but I wanted to let you know that my photography collective, She Shootin’, has been featured in the latest issue of Trace magazine (www.trace212.com) as part of the NYC Creative Collective spread (images [...]

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    • PITCH BLACKNESS BY HANK WILLIS THOMAS (APERTURE, 2008) December 8, 2008
      Pitch 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, 2008
      Check 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, 2008
      Poli-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, 2008
      Archeology 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, 2008
      I 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 [...]