Homecoming Celebration Call for Artists

The Saartjie Project:
is a black women artists collective
defies and explores body politics and stereotypes
holds Saartjie (Sara) Baartman’s life as the catalyst for our work
shines humanity in the face of dehumanizing forces
is pleased to put out a CALL FOR FEMALE ARTISTS– visual & performing– to participate in a HOMECOMING benefit showcase!

To celebrate the 7th anniversary of [...]

University of Durham opportunity

Attention artists, curators, writers and students. Please see information from Durham University below. Please contact them direct.

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Durham is very pleased to offer an AHRC-funded MA studentship in Photography Studies for the academic year 2009/10 under the Block Grant Partnership scheme. The studentship is available [...]

If you’re in the East Bay tomorrow…

Carla Williams
Artist, Critic, Curator
co-author with Deborah Willis of The Black Female Body: A Photographic History

and
Kamau Amu Patton
Artist and Educator

“The Culture Game: Contemporary Art and Exhibition”

Wednesday, March 18
4-5:30pm
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities
220 Stephens Hall

University of California, Berkeley
Presented in conjunction with the Townsend GROUP Course AFAM 144: Black Visual Culture;
with support from the Townsend Center; [...]

In Media Res

MEDIA RES
In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship. Each day, a different scholar will curate a 30-second to 3-minute video clip/visual image slideshow accompanied by a 300-350-word impressionistic response.

Character Project

You never know where artists will turn up…I don’t even have a TV but I was watching CSI Miami reruns at my sister’s house and saw a quick ad for USA Network’s Character Project, and who did I spy but Dawoud Bey in the mix: http://www.usanetwork.com/characterproject/#/photographers/Bey