Black Venus in Syracuse this Friday & Saturday
Syracuse University’s Office of the Performing Arts Presenter and Art and Civic Dialog present
The Venus Project, An Open Rehearsal of Music, Song and Visual Projections
by Composer Philip Miller and Artist Carrie Mae Weems
joined by Director, Talvin Wilks, Author Rachel Holmes and the Syracuse Opera Resident Artists
Friday 10-1 p.m.
Saturday 12-1:30 p.m.
Friday is more like [...]
Progeny Two: Deb Willis & Hank Willis Thomas + Fo Wilson & Dayo @ The Light Factory
Progeny Two: Deb Willis & Hank Willis Thomas + Fo Wilson & DayoOctober 8, 2010 – January 23, 2011
Opening Friday October 8, 2010
6pm-8pm
Gantt Center for African Americam Arts + Culture
Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas – mother and son – collaborate with Fo Wilson and her son Dayo Harewood for Progeny Two which opens to [...]
Bayeté Ross Smith’s photographs seen on The Colbert Report
Stephen Colbert recently interviewed author Eugene Robinson about his new book, Disintegrated: The Splintering of Black America. During the interview they showed Robinson’s book several times, which features Smith’s images from his Our Kind of People series on the cover (beginning around the 14:50 mark). Check out the interview at http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/mon-october-4-2010-eugene-robinson
Precious Cargo: A Traveling Museum Dedicated to the African Diaspora
http://www.museumpreciouscargo.org/preciouscargo/
Review of “In My Father’s House,” Pittsburgh
(This looks like a really interesting show—I want that banquette, Cheryl!—but, really, where are the copy editors??? “Cary May Weems?” These kinds of things are just so lazy and easily remedied. Also, I can’t recall ever reading an exhibitions manager quoted as calling an exhibition in her venue “neat.” I guess I can’t ever shrug [...]
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- Taking a Break February 23, 2012Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
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- Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 23, 2012Danielle was briefly a contributor to this site; I am very excited to hear about her latest venture, the collective and now journal Mambu Badu “that seek to find, expose, and nurture emerging female photographers of African descent.”  Congrats, Danielle! As you may (or may not) know, last fall, I co-founded Mambu Badu, a photography collective […]