Portrait of An Artist as a Black Man
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Art By The Book With Najee Dorsey
Black Art In America in partnership with the Book Look is working together to gain more exposure for artists of color. The Book Look is your online TV source for celebrating books, authors, celebrities and events relevant to the African American literary…
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Phoebe Beasley's Langston Hughes Portfolio Collection
Phoebe Beasley completed a collaboration with Dr. Maya Angelou in which she created several serigraphs from poems by Langston Hughes for a limited edition book. Dr. Angelou selected the poems and titled the masterful compilation, "Sunrise is Coming After While", and then wrote the forwards on Hughes and Beasley. Phoebe Beasley is an accomplished artist who's in many important collections including Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Maya Angelou and Samuel L. and LaTanya…
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(New Urban Author and New Hood Visionary Mr. Emmanuel Barbee)
Wonderfully engaging, informative, and down to earth, the author Mr. Emmanuel Barbee recounts his life in the book “The Solution For Black America: Reclaiming, Rebuilding, And Restoring The Urban Ghettos In America” Second Edition is an auto-biography about his personal experience growing up in the inner city of Chicago ghettos. He provides a road map about how his organization will end gun violence, poverty, and structural inequality in Urban America. He wrote…
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Death of the Black Owned, Independent, Bookstore
Posted on March 25, 2012 by Troy Johnson…
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Vendor Opportunity at the 3rd annual Baltimore Urban Book Festival Sunday July 14, 2013

Are you an artist, author or publisher who wants exposure for…
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The Importance of Integrating Art within Architecture
For a number of years I’ve been working with architectural practices heavily involved in the delivery of public buildings. Equally, I’ve worked alongside visual artists working on community projects. Although I’ve witnessed a few collaborations between the professions, I do wonder why there hasn’t been more importance placed on developing such partnerships, particularly in designing schools and hospitals. One obvious answer is the need to reduce building costs. Limiting or completely…
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A Day in the Life of An Artist- David Emmanuel Noel Blog site
I welcome you in joining me as I blog and discuss the arts with others via this platform. Your communication and dialogue will always be appreciated! Please visit http://mrdavidemmanuelnoel.wordpress.com/ for details
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SHARPEVILLE IS CALLING!!
please take a minute to read this... Sharpeville%20Arts%20Institute.pdf
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The Black Aesthetic -- Women and Men -- Support our Challenge
Our Challenge: SEEING BEAUTY IN DIFFERENCE!
Hampton University Museum’s journal, the International Review of African American Art (IRAAA), is a semi-finalist for the Business Unusual National Challenge sponsored by EMC Arts.
Our Challenge project will support the art of seeing beauty in difference. The “different” beauty that the project will encourage people to see is beauty that deviates…
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Extended Crisis Mode: The Making of 'Price Point'
*This post was originally published by 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".*
Let me begin with…
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May Art News fro Sálongo
The Charles Crossley book project is completed
I'm going to ArtPrize…
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Catholic Beat Article on Hasse Emmaus Painting
The late Fr. Jim Hasse's painting of the Emmaus story from Luke's Gospel was featured in a recent article on Catholic Beat. The painting hangs in St. Leo Church in Cincinnati, and all the people in the paiting are parishioners. Here is the direct link:
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The Price of Freedom is Death: Black Aesthetic ArtShow 2013
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Why We Need to Tell Our Own Stories (2): Sweet Crude - The Niger Delta
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A Rose for Our Mothers
Daphne & I want to wish everyone we know to those we do not know a Happy Mothers Day. Daphne lost her mother shortly after I met her 8 years ago and I lost my mother 2 weeks after we were married in December 2010. We both have friends and love ones who have lost their mothers and know how sad this day can be sometimes. So we're sending everyone a symbolic Rose for all of our mothers, those who are still with us and for those who have made that transition. I've…
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I'm Becoming a Popular Artist!
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Inquiry & Perspectives On the Illusion of Separateness: works by Ann C. Saunders
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Nelson Mandela Sculpture
A BLACK HISTORY MOMENT TO SHARENelson Mandela SculptureIt consists of 50 ten metre high laser cut steel plates set into…
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Local Artists Join with Arts Organization to Restore Sculpture by Black Artist
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson. This was an amazing, magnificent book chronicling the history of great numbers of Blacks who began leaving the south to seek a better life in the big cities of the North during the time period between 1915 through 1970.
Interested in having your book featured, join the Book Look group and for more on authors check out AALBC.
