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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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  • CARLAGIRL PHOTO was founded on 14 February 1999 by Carla Willliams, a photographer, writer, and editor, born, raised and heading back to (yea!) Los Angeles, California.

    It was established with two goals: to be able to make my own work widely available for free, and to make accessible my research about artists of the African Diaspora, especially photographers, and in particular women. As it developed it grew to also include GLBTQ artists.

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    • Taking a Break February 8, 2012
      Site 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, [...] […]
    • A New Mission for Aperture? February 8, 2012
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    • Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 8, 2012
      Danielle 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 […]


  • "Dedicated to the real photographers of the world—to those who, with their second-hand equipment and their makeshift darkrooms, are today fighting their solitary battles with their recalcitrant medium, not for money or for glory, but because they would rather make pictures than anything else in the world." - William Mortensen
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