Bearden in the Public Realm symposium
“Bearden in the Public Realm”
March 26-27, 2010
at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture
980 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh
This event is free and open to the public.
The symposium’s subject is Romare Bearden (1911-1988), a cosmopolitan modernist who spent part of his childhood in Pittsburgh, and later interpreted its rich cultural history in expressive collage, [...]
Venus 2010 @ NYU: Symposium
March 27, 2010
721 Broadway, Riese Lounge
(Room reservation 8am – 7pm)
8:00 – set up
· Check in table (entranceway, 2 chairs)
· Panel table (west wall, 4 chairs)
· Refreshments table (south wall near entrance)
· Bookselling/signing tables
· Reserve seating for presenters
9:00 – check in
9:30 – Welcome
Deb Willis, Manthia Diawara
10:00 –11:00: Sarah Baartman in Context
Presenters: Charmaine Nelson, Zine Magubane, [...]
If you’re not going to SPE in Philly this weekend…
The Message Is in the Music: Hip Hop Feminism, Riot Grrrl, Latina Music & More
A Conference at Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, New York (15 minutes north of Manhattan)
Friday & Saturday, March 5 & 6, 2010
Free and Open to the Public
Keynote Speaker: Carmen Ashhurst, former president of Def Jam Recordings and Rush Communications and author of the [...]
Baartman Colloquium
I didn’t get this posted in time (it happened yesterday) and it just wasn’t close enough to where I live, but did anyone out there attend this symposium? I’d be very interested to hear feedback—it promised to be quite interesting!
Fearless: Porter Colloquium
April 15-17, 2010
Howard University
http://jamesaportercolloquium.org/
Risk Takers, Rule Breakers, and Innovators in African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora.
During the three-day program, art historians, artists, critics, and interdisciplinary scholars will examine the theme—FEARLESS—by focusing on issues and ideas that reveal how this drive, impulse, and attitude often propel artists to break the rules, invent new [...]
81 Press
- Interesting powerHouse news March 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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€. […]