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Museum Directors, Curators, etc What's The Process For Placing An Artist In The Collection
Started by Nathaniel. Last reply by Keisha Roberts Jun 12, 2011. 10 Replies 0 Likes
Hello, I'd like to ask the question how does one become or get into a museum collectionparticularly an African American museum. What's the process, how does one find out about the artist's…Continue
Creating an authentic language for our process/work.
Started by Claudia H Gibson-Hunter/ Aziza. Last reply by Carol R Williams May 11. 7 Replies 2 Likes
How many artists of African Descent are working on creating languagethat helps us to describe aesthetics, concepts, contexts, and genre, for our work. Many of the terms used by art historians do not…Continue
The Establishment of Black museums in every city and town.
Started by Dr. Barbara G. Holmes. Last reply by Demetries St. Amand holmes Feb 16. 5 Replies 1 Like
I am a museum junkie. The type of museum is of no significance. My concern is the as I travel throughout the country, I see museums refkecting the culture of various ethnic groups, but Black museums…Continue
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Comment by Timothy Lee Giles on April 22, 2012 at 6:52am -
Water color 40 X 70. " They Fight For Freedom."
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Comment by Timothy Lee Giles on April 22, 2012 at 6:52am
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Comment by Winston Kennedy on April 4, 2012 at 3:11am -
For many years, since the Harlem Renaissance, the small proliferation of African American Museums is something that we have agitated, organized and worked to achieve. It is good that Ms. Dowell has created this group. The comments should and is providing a greater dialogue about the necessity for these hard earned cultural institutions. Now, our next task is to make them effective and dynamic places of education, cultural synergy and cultural confluences of the "various waters of our Ancestral Streams." Let us create breathing, living and engaged institutions.
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Miguel Covarrubias, "To Hold as t' Were the Mirror up to Nature," 1929
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Comment by Author Collective on March 21, 2012 at 6:52am
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The 2012 Michigan Spring Art and Book Festival is now looking for artists and authors to sell and display their works. We have rented the entire Laurel Park Place Mall in Livonia April 13th through 15th and will have lots of space for artisans, crafts people and visual arts talent. Throughout the common areas of the center will be 6' tables for writers and 10' x 10' booth space for artists. Author tables start at $90 per day and the artists booths are only $295 for the three day weekend. What better place to sell and show your artistic talents than a shopping mall?The weekend is free to the public and will have lots of no cost professional development for creative people. Lectures, discussions and workshops by Monica Marie Jones, Elizabeth Atkins, Sylvia Hubbard, Zahra Huber, eBooks2Go and others will give insight into the worlds of art, broadcast journalism, publishing and eBook conversion. Friday and Saturday evenings at 6:00 p.m. we will have our "Gentle to All Ears" poetry sessions and family friendly open mic poetry recitals. Our "Celebrity Read Out Loud" places students with local celebrities and mentors as they read books every thirty minutes. Join Southfield Mayor, Brenda Lawrence, Channel 955 on air personalities "Bg" and "Ace" plus Tony Trupiano from the "Tony Show" and many more for these free readings.Our R2Books program will donate 1,000 brand new books to students from the area. Fifty schools, churches and civic organizations will be selected to receive 20 book certificates each. These book certificates may be redeemed by students, kindergarten through twelfth grade, for any age appropriate book, no cost or obligation. Don't forget to bring the children and those who are young at heart to this free family friendly festival.Applications for each event are now on line at:Log on now to reserve your table or call (313) 446-2262 for additional details. Looking to travel or living away from the Detroit Area? Check out our festivals in Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Nashville. These websites will have more details.Looking forward to working with you.
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Comment by Turtel Onli on November 17, 2011 at 6:14am -
The Rhythmistic Museum. Online since 2002. Follow the links to a art appreciation with another point of view.
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Comment by Glenn Towery on June 28, 2011 at 4:46pm -
C. Bernard Jackson, founder of the once and famous "Inner City Cultural Center", of Los Angeles once said "Art may be the only thing that can save us from destroying ourselves." For those of you who do not know, the "Inner City Cultural Center" became a haven for artists and art in all of its myriad forms during the late 1960's and up and through the 1980's until its eventual demise in the mid 1990's. During that time it spawned many famous people and individual stars. It succumbed to a bureaucratic oppressive machine that did away with community theater as we knew it then, in Los Angeles and in a way slowed down the expansion of free thought and creativity that was spawned in Los angeles through art. In my opinion: Freedom, true freedom begins with the ability to have a platform from which to feel free to grow and share with others that are open to suggestion by artistic means. That is one of the reasons this site is like an oasis in a proverbial desert for Black artists.
Keep in mind that I believe that art can also spur the growth of oppressive ideas in a society that has the vulnerabilities to succumb to it by symbolic messaging, remember Hitler's swastika?... And there are numerous historical examples of that. Arguably flags themselves are art.As it regards revisionist history art has played a tremendous role in shaping how we see the past, often supplying truths that smash through lies and misrepresentations of cultures and who they actually were thousands of years ago. In this instance we might say that art can break an oppressive lie that would allow a sustained superior notion of one group of people being superior to another.
I think that creativity and oppression have been going at it in many ways for a long period of time and that it depends on the mindset of those who use art to determine if it is to be used for oppressive ideals in our world.
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Comment by Turtel Onli on June 5, 2011 at 6:35am
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Comment by Turtel Onli on May 27, 2011 at 6:39pm
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Since the early 1970's and some.
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Comment by D. DelReverda-Jennings on March 3, 2011 at 3:43pm -
Happy to Be a Part of the Consensus.
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