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Maurice Burns is among the only living and working artists connected to the heyday of IAIA (Institute of American Indian Arts) and Santa Fe Native American painters in the 1960’s-70’s, a movement, aesthetic and market for contemporary Native American painting that broke free from the representational past of traditional “Indian Art.” More

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Kerry James Marshall is a contemporary American artist whose distinctive body of work engages audiences on issues of black identity. A recipient of the McArthur Foundation's "genius grant," he has exhibited extensively at prestigious institutions around the globe and held numerous solo exhibitions.

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. will host that city's first solo exhibition of the acclaimed American painter with an exhibit, "In the Tower: Kerry James Marshall," on view June 28 - Dec. 7. More

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Felicia Holman (co-founder, Honey Pot Performance) on Collaboraction's blog for the 2013 Sketchbook performance festival in Chicago, IL. Here we get an inside look about the process and importance of making their latest work,"Price Point". 

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Kerry James Marshall’s “Great America” (1994), above, will serve as the centerpiece of his focus exhibition titled, “In the Tower: Kerry James Marshall,” this year (June 28–Dec. 7) at the National Gallery of Art. 

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Acclaimed African American artist Dr. J Eugene Grigsby Jr. died June 9th, 2013. 

Dr. J. Eugene Grigsby Jr., an artist, educator, author, lecturer and mentor had a life well lived. Gene will be remembered for his contribution to the principles he lived every day, a life of sharing his love of art, writing, and even theater with the world at large. Video

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I Shall Not Be Moved by Maya Angelou. The triumph and pain of being black and the struggle to be free. Filled with bittersweet intimacies and ferocious courage, these poems are gems--many-faceted, bright with wisdom, radiant with life.

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