Call for artists
Looking for a female artist of color that has created work based on issues of sexual molestation within the Black community…specifically the abuse of little black girls. Email info@themckennamuseum.com
Artist news
Veronica Stein has been selected to participate in the 2009 “Chicago Artists Month” through the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs during the month of October. She will be performing “Blak Is Brite; a Performance in Brown.” Venue TBA. Updates to come…
Ayana Vellissia Jackson’s recent work, “Commuter Van’s and No Man’s Land,” reflecting Nairobi’s [...]
news from LaToya Ruby Frazier
Check out a really great recent interview with the Morning News in which Frazier talks about her seven-year collaboration with her Grandma Ruby and Mom in Braddock, PA (a town that was featured in this New York Times article). I’m especially excited to read—obviously—that she’s working on a book and publishers are interested. Somebody certainly [...]
Sheila Pree Bright in Motion
Photographer Kevin Jones sent the link to this interview with Sheila (thanks, Kevin!) for the series Hasselblad in Motion. I know Sheila is shy—she even says so in the video—but the fixed single-camerawork—I wanted to see some close-ups or action shots of Sheila at work! But, really, how great that she’s profiled: http://www.hasselbladusa.com/about-hasselblad/hasselblad-in-motion.aspx
Maroonrebel by Renée Cox–updated (sale)
Maroonrebel is pleased to announce a discount on Maroonrebel t-shirts. Now ONLY $32! We hope the lowered price will make our products more attractive to you.
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We all have to make our hustle, right, but $50 logo t-shirts? Ordinarily I’m all over artists’ retail products, but in this economy???
Maroonrebel is [...]
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81 Press
- Interesting powerHouse news March 12, 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 12, 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 12, 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€. […]