Opening reception with artists on Friday, October 2nd; 7pm to 10pm
The Pitch Gallery is pleased to announce the sixth annual Eccentrik Festival art exhibit, a group art show of video, paintings, photographs, and illustrations. This exhibition will also be in celebration of the third annivers ...
Posted Thursday, September 24th 2009 at 8:07PM
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Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (PRWEB) September 23, 2009 -- Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale / Nova Southeastern University is calling artists from around the world to participate in the National Art Festival, one of South Florida's most prestigious art shows. The event will be held Saturday, Jan. 30-Su ...
Posted Thursday, September 24th 2009 at 7:49PM
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The Lincoln Arts Council will host the 2009 Lincoln Arts Festival this weekend at the SouthPointe Pavilions Shopping Center. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday and will feature 99 artists, running the gamut in geography, medium and price.
"We've got a ...
Posted Thursday, September 24th 2009 at 7:43PM
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Chattanooga’s own Shadow May beat out artists from across the Southeast to win the Best in Clay category at the Atlanta Arts Festival. The festival featured over 200 artists from around the country in different visual art categories.
This isn’t the first award for Mr. May this year, he rece ...
Posted Thursday, September 24th 2009 at 7:32PM
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Even with most weather-reports predicting torrential rains throughout the weekend, the Emanuel Artist’s Guild and Emanuel Arts Council held out faith that this weekend’s 5th Annual Emanuel Arts Festival would be spared. By 10 a.m., when the Festival began this past Saturday, the clouds had part ...
Posted Wednesday, September 23rd 2009 at 3:45PM
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Mark Staples, Star Prairie, won a white ribbon in woodworking from Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum’s “National Exhibition of Folk Art in the Norwegian Tradition.”
Also, David Fowler, New Richmond, won an honorable mention award in woodworking in the contest.
The exhibition was held Jul ...
Posted Wednesday, September 23rd 2009 at 3:35PM
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Kehinde Wiley @ Deitch Project 76 Grand Street NYC Thru 9/26
The graciously contrarian artist unveils a show of photographs, which were inspired by his own research photos on which he bases the paintings he’s best known for: of young African-American men posing in hip-hop garb amid jarring, hi ...
Posted Monday, September 21st 2009 at 6:09PM
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North American artist and current director of the Fashion Design Faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago addresses social and political issues in his work by utilizing clothing-based forms as a response to being a black male in America. In the fashion of ethnographic costumes foun ...
Posted Monday, September 21st 2009 at 6:04PM
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This fall marks the 150th anniversaries of John Brown’s anti-slavery raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, a pivotal event in igniting the Civil War, and his Dec. 2, 1859 execution. To commemorate Akron’s most famous historic resident, the Akron Art Museum presents selections from Jacob Lawrence’s p ...
Posted Monday, September 21st 2009 at 5:58PM
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An exhibit of African art, including about 20 pieces from Southern University at New Orleans that were restored after festering in Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters, will open Friday at 6 p.m. at the New Orleans African-American Museum of Art, Culture and History at 1418 Gov. Nicholls St.
Admi ...
Posted Monday, September 21st 2009 at 5:44PM
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Okay - I let up on the poetry for a couple of months, but I'm always doing something in the background. I'd like you to listen to this piece. It's a single from my next album, "Celibacy & Wedding Bells." I want to know what you think. You now - ...
Posted Saturday, September 19th 2009 at 11:04PM
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I'm sure we’d all agree much of our society and educational system is failing to inspire many of our children rather than inspiring them to not fail.
The Better Detroit Youth Movement was born out of an ongoing frustration with the lack of effort ...
Posted Saturday, September 19th 2009 at 8:39PM
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Yesterday I was commenting about how First Lady Michelle never smiled duringthe presidential address last week. It boethered mefor some reason. Her smiles usually indicates to me her confidence in our President. I saw worry on her face last wee ...
Posted Thursday, September 17th 2009 at 12:38PM
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The Hidden Glen Arts Festival celebrates its 21st anniversary this year on Saturday and Sunday.
The arts event, which takes place on the grounds surrounding Shadow Lake in the Cedar Creek community, is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
The festival is free and ...
Posted Wednesday, September 16th 2009 at 3:43PM
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WHAT: President Obama will appear in person to discuss Healthcare Reform and take questions.
Where: University of Maryland - College Park
Comcast Center
1 Terrapin Trail
College Park ...
Posted Wednesday, September 16th 2009 at 2:47PM
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LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. - Ro Gallery will present more than 360 lots of paintings, prints, sculptures and photographs at a Modern and Contemporary Art Auction on Sept. 17 beginning at 1 p.m. Artists will include Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Juan Miro, Romare Bearden, Dimitrie Berea and Ru ...
Posted Wednesday, September 16th 2009 at 2:33PM
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I always feel like an idiot when I trip over something new that I has been hiding in plain sight. So here I am again pointing to the obvious.
Randall Whitfield has been at work on Oxford Avenue (4945) across from Frankford High School for a few months now and I have whizzed by a hundred tim ...
Posted Wednesday, September 16th 2009 at 2:23PM
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Please feel free to view link: www.myabbais1.com
*Just click photo for larger view.*
Hello, hope to find all is well for you.
The word is ABBA, stands for God as our Father, Daddy, etc. It is a personal name for God. Many people view God as ...
Posted Monday, September 14th 2009 at 4:37PM
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This is another in a series of posts about the great folk art pieces included in the Fenimore Art Museum’s traveling exhibition Through the Eyes of Others: African Americans and Identity in American Art, which is on view at the New York State Museum in Albany through January 6, 2010. This exhib ...
Posted Monday, September 14th 2009 at 3:15PM
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It's never too late or too early to plan for financing a college education. Below is a list of scholarships sent by a friend. He is very passionate about why blacks do NOT apply for scholarships and then the available money is returned to the sender.
Why do we allow scholarship funds to ...
Posted Sunday, September 13th 2009 at 5:10PM
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By LINDA DEUTSCH
AP Special Correspondent
Guest: Many wept during Jackson's Calif. funeral
GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) -- Paris Jackson wept as she stepped into the mausoleum where her father, Michael, was to be entombed. Katherine Jackson, overcom ...
Posted Friday, September 4th 2009 at 12:02PM
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Discover how one African-American woman conquered the odds and recovered from a mental condition known as Bipolar!
"Cooling Well Water: A Collection of Work By An African-American Bipolar Woman" ISBN 13 978-0-9754612-0-4 reveals the positive side ...
Posted Thursday, September 3rd 2009 at 2:36PM
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(Taken from Black Voices 8/26/09)
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the last surviving brother in an enduring political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod after a yearlong ...
Posted Wednesday, August 26th 2009 at 6:13PM
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hey guys,
I wanted to get your attention that I have posted the entire healthcare teleconference held today by President Obama.
This is by far the most thorough breakdown of the healthcare reform bill that tells the truth and puts an end to all ...
Posted Thursday, August 20th 2009 at 10:32PM
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