Tierney Fellowship
The Tierney Fellowship was created in 2003 by The Tierney Family Foundation to support emerging artists in the field of photography. The primary goal of the Fellowship is to find tomorrow’s distinguished artists and leaders in the world of photography and assist them in overcoming the challenges that a photographer faces at the beginning [...]
AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS AND GERMANY
AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS AND GERMANY
Exhibition at the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
November 15, 2008 - January 15, 2009
When Barack Obama addressed more than 200,000 enthusiastic Berliners this year, the German press evoked not only the memory of John F. Kennedy’s famous visit to the city in 1963 but also that of Dr. Martin Luther [...]
African American or African Art History position - Wayne State University
African American or African Art History Position-Open Level-Assistant or Associate
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
The Art and Art History Department at Wayne State University invites applications for a tenure track position-level open to Assistant or Associate-in either American art or African art. In the case of American art, a specialty in African American art is preferred. In [...]
NY premiere of Beautiful Me(s)
Beautiful Me(s): Finding our Revolutionary Selves in Black Cuba will have its New York City premiere December 1st 6-8pm at The New School 66 West 12th Street Room 407 Alvin Johnson/JM Kaplan Hall.
This documentary film is the intimate travel diary of an underdog group of African American Studies graduate students at Yale who journey to [...]
2009 Lorser Feitelson & Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Arts Fellowship
2009 Lorser Feitelson & Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Arts Fellowship
DEADLINE FOR ALL APPLICATION MATERIALS: January 23, 2009
GENERAL INFORMATION: The Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Arts Fellowship is awarded through the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Associates (LAMAGA), a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that supports the Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park. The Feitelson Foundation award was [...]
81 Press
- 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 [...]
cadre $10 artist grant
- 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 [...]