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
keep looking »
81 Press
- Interesting powerHouse news March 11, 2010Dear powerHouse follower— You are, with any luck, a retailer, a reviewer, a promoter, or just someone vigorously involved in the visual arts, and have been following us through our varied publications over the years and the copious press we made with them, and perhaps recall the risks, the successes, maybe even the élan to which [...] […]
- Haiku in my Neighborhood (M. Hanks Gallery, 2009) March 11, 2010Haiku in my Neighborhood. Poems by Dee Dee McNeil, photographs by Roland Charles, M. Hanks Gallery, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9821810-1-0, $25.00. (Pages from the book are viewable at Google Books online.) Haiku in my Neighborhood – a coffee table book of 50 haiku poems written by jazz singer/songwriter Dee Dee McNeil with photographs by noted photographer-ar […]
- The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack by Barthélémy Toguo (Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 2010) March 11, 2010The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack” (”Le Journal Érotique d’un Bûcheron”). artist’s book by Barthélémy Toguo with 12 linocuts and texts, 38 x 26.5 cm, Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 1000€. […]