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Are you in Pittsburgh? Wanna be on TV?

Live Studio Audience Invited for the Taping of Humanities on the Road
Featuring Eminent African American Scholar Discussing the
Work of Charles “Teenie” Harris

2 to 3 p.m., Saturday, June 26, Carnegie Museum of Art Theater

Pittsburgh, PA…On Saturday, June 26, Carnegie Museum of Art will host a taping before a live audience for an episode of Humanities on the Road, the new [...]

Brainiac Rising! in Vogue

Congrats, Sarah!
From the Magazine: Sarah Lewis Co-Curates the SITE Santa Fe Biennial
I’ve always done too much,” Sarah Lewis says in a tone that falls somewhere between self-mockery and pride. Thirty years old and whiplash fit, with honors degrees from Harvard and Oxford under her belt and on the verge of a Ph.D. from Yale, she [...]

Press: Lorraine O’Grady in Art in America; Deb Willis in Huffington Post

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/finer-things/2010-02-23/whitney-biennial-lorraine-ogrady/
A Portrait of Deborah Willis

More press for Posing Beauty:

Beauty and the Face of Change

Zanele Muholi @ Allegheny College

Exhibit focuses on gender, sexuality, identity | The Campus
Jan 27, 2010 … “Serving Allegheny College Since 1876.” … Amelia Conte/The Campus -Zanele Muholi spoke about her project, “Insila Yomuntu …

Interesting article about black artists

(thanks, Deb & Tuka!)
RACE ISSUE A TWO-EDGED SWORD FOR BLACK CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
By Blake Gopnik, Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, January 24, 2010
They are called “knowledge cards” — a glossy picture on the front of each, some factoids to explain it on the back — and museums sell them in packs of 48, on all kinds of [...]

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    • Palimpsest: New Journal Announcement and CFP September 2, 2010
      Website and Submission Guidelines Information: www.vanderbilt.edu/aframst/palimpsest Inquiries: PalimpsestJournal@vanderbilt.edu Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender and the Black International is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes cutting edge interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work by and about women of the African Diaspora and their commu […]
    • CFS: Photobook!! The Photographer and the Self-Published Book September 2, 2010
      I’m writing to request you spread the word regarding our November 18 – December 19 exhibition, PHOTOBOOK!! It’s our first annual juried photobooks show. I’m a true believer in the photobook to bring one’s work to the attention of the public. I think it’s a natural for the end of the [...] […]
    • Annual powerHouse Arena Book and Tag Sale July 28 – September 6 September 2, 2010
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