Frank Leon Roberts is a Ford Fellow and former Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University (Spring 2009). He is one of 35 doctoral candidates in the United States to be a recipient of the 2009 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Award, the natio ...
Posted Thursday, October 15th 2009 at 11:43PM
(more)
"PAFA is proud to present the first career retrospective of Barkley L. Hendricks, a Philadelphia native and PAFA alumnus. Hendricks has received acclaim for his life-sized portraits of people of color. Having come of age in the Civil Rights era and the Black is Beautiful movement, Hendricks ...
Posted Thursday, October 15th 2009 at 11:33PM
(more)
Elizabeth Alexander has published five books of poems: The Venus Hottentot (1990), Body of Life (1996), Antebellum Dream Book (2001), American Sublime (2005), which was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and was one of the American Library Association’s “Notable Books of the Year;” a ...
Posted Thursday, October 15th 2009 at 11:22PM
(more)
On Sunday, October 18, 2009, the NBTEE, in association with R.E.A.C.H. Communications, is hosting a benefit concert at The Triad Theater in New York City. This event will combine a variety of fine performances with a powerful purpose of sharing info ...
Posted Tuesday, October 13th 2009 at 5:36PM
(more)
What lies between the covers of a book is one kind of art and the cover itself is another kind altogether. I've been blessed to see my books dressed in the visual splendor of some extremely gifted artists, including Jacob Lawrence, Gustave Blache III ...
Posted Monday, October 12th 2009 at 1:41AM
(more)
hey y'all, howyabeendoin'
I am having a delightful day and got plenty of rest, too. I wanted to, had to, share this latest brain food idea with you.
I was making food baskets the other night for my church. I ran out of bags and had to think ...
Posted Saturday, October 10th 2009 at 8:49PM
(more)
Praise Him ~ Halleluia!
Of course, we are all very proud that our President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize! He is the third sitting President of the United States to do so. I tell you, I would love to be writing all this new history for Pri ...
Posted Saturday, October 10th 2009 at 7:55PM
(more)
Unemployment at an All-Time High
The country is in the worst economic state it's ever experienced since the 1930s. Reports reveal the country's unemployment rate has risen to 9.8% and the US economy shed 263,000 jobs in September. For Blacks and Afr ...
Posted Monday, October 5th 2009 at 9:02AM
(more)
Pencil Drawing
20" x 38"
Exclusive Edition Giclee Print.
1) Large Size: (20" X 38") on Arches 100% rag paper
2) Medium Size: (17" X 32") on Arches 100% rag paper
Suggested Retail: $628.00 ...
Posted Monday, October 5th 2009 at 3:02AM
(more)
Original: Oil Painting on Canvas
We have finally arrived at a milestone in American history. The rainbow colored paint symbolizes all the diverse cultures & religions that make our country great that have been marginalized by previous leaders.
...
Posted Monday, October 5th 2009 at 3:00AM
(more)
I am Artoni (Anthony C. Fletcher) a visionary fine artist, graphic artist & author. I have a new published graphic novel/picture book entitled:
C2 & PÓSSE: INNER-CITY HEROES™ (Langdon Street Press, a Hillcrest Publishing Group imprint; December 200 ...
Posted Monday, October 5th 2009 at 2:50AM
(more)
In the October 9, 2009, edition of the Afro American Newspaper (Vol. 118 No. 8), the beautiful and intelligent African-American woman doctor, who is also President of the National Medical Association (association of black doctors) and with an interna ...
Posted Sunday, October 4th 2009 at 10:06AM
(more)
Right around this time of year (sometimes as far back as summer), I begin planning and purchasing the Christmas gifts I will give to the little girls in my life and donations. So I am reading this article that was posted on Black Voices this morning ...
Posted Sunday, October 4th 2009 at 8:46AM
(more)
ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY AT www.Amazon.com and give the perfect holiday gift to a loved one!
ISBN 13 978-0-9754612-0-4 ...
Posted Saturday, October 3rd 2009 at 10:55AM
(more)
hey Y'all--howyabeendoin'
I hope you all are doing well. I have been sailing on such peace of mind...and work. I taped a radio show with Host Pastor Shirley Russell for her Heaven600/Heaven600.com program: Peace of Mind! You must check out the ...
Posted Saturday, October 3rd 2009 at 10:26AM
(more)
New York—The image that graces the cover of the auction catalogue for Swann Galleries’ sale of African-American Fine Art on Thursday, October 8 is John Biggers’s powerful 1987 oil and acrylic painting titled Shotguns. The Biggers painting—probably the artist’s best known work—is one of 116 pain ...
Posted Friday, October 2nd 2009 at 4:42PM
(more)
Born in Brooklyn, New York of Trinidadian parents. Talita grew up immersed in the culture of the West Indies. Long has been an art specialist in Los Angeles and at various institutes of higher learning for many years. She studied with the great print-maker, Maurice Lasansky, where she earned ov ...
Posted Friday, October 2nd 2009 at 4:28PM
(more)
Kristen Hayes is an artist and art teacher in Washington DC. Measurable Advancement had the opportunity to interview Ms. Hayes and gain further insight into her passion for art education, how it could be better utilized and much more. So put on your thinking caps, because after this interview ...
Posted Friday, October 2nd 2009 at 4:20PM
(more)
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- An estimated $27 million worth of art, including works by Jackson Pollock, Vincent Van Gogh and Rembrandt, were stolen from a Pebble Beach home on Friday.
The artwork was taken from the home that the owners of the collection, A. Benjamin Amadio and Dr. Ralph Kennaugh, ...
Posted Tuesday, September 29th 2009 at 4:29PM
(more)
The goals of the New Negro Movement that became known as the Harlem Renaissance were to create a public platform to showcase African American contributions to art and literature in opposition to the racist stereotypes that prevailed at the time. How were African American writers, poets, musicia ...
Posted Monday, September 28th 2009 at 11:11PM
(more)
TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 28, 2009 — Get out your crayons and finger paints! Sweet Pea Gallery, a Tampa-based ceiling fan company that specializes in fans for kids’ rooms, is searching for contestants to design artwork for their newest line of ceiling fans which will be sold in stores nationwide.
“ ...
Posted Monday, September 28th 2009 at 10:55PM
(more)
The recession is (possibly) over (perhaps), but if you’ve been looking for ways to goose the next consumer spending report, we suggest a trip this weekend to the Plaza Art Fair.
It’s one of Kansas City’s biggest annual events, of course, and a terrific opportunity to ogle lots of interesting ...
Posted Thursday, September 24th 2009 at 8:22PM
(more)
Most Houston art lovers know how John and Dominique de Menil had the means to build the shockingly good collection now housed in the museum that bears their name. She was an heiress to the Schlumberger fortune, and he was an executive at the oil-field services company. Money isn’t everything, b ...
Posted Thursday, September 24th 2009 at 8:16PM
(more)
