Category: Arts

  • The Body Beautiful: A film by Ngozi Onwurah Women Make Movies England, 1991 23 minutes Color, VHS/16mm/DVD Order No. W99229 Melbourne Film Festival, Best Documentary This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image…

  • The Graffitist Who Moved Indoors The New York Times 2013-03-28 Carol Kino SAN FRANCISCO — “This is one of my favorite things to do,” Barry McGee said as he drove along the Bayshore Freeway on a glowering winter day, pointing out random patches of new graffiti. He was supposed to be talking about his traveling…

  • One Drop of Love: A Multimedia Solo Performance on Racial Identity by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni at University of Maryland University of Maryland, College Park The Stamp (Adele H. Stamp Student Union) [Directions] Atrium Room Friday, 2013-03-29, 17:00-19:30 EDT (Local Time) Sponsored by the Multiracial Biracial Student Association (MBSA), Office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy…

  • Author/artist Kip Fulbeck on campus April 3 Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, New York 2013-03-28 “Who Are You?” a presentation on diversity and identity by artist/author/filmmaker Kip Fulbeck, is scheduled at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, at Skidmore College. Free and open to the public, the event will be in Gannett Auditorium, Palamountain Hall. A book…

  • Talkin’ Race with Laura and Wei Ming The Magic Mulatto: Bringing the fine art of Race Talk straight to the people 2013-03-26 Brett Russell Coleman, Doctoral Student of Community & Prevention Research University of Illinois, Chicago “In 1969, we weren’t at war with China.” If that sentence leaves you perplexed in any way, you need…

  • Indigo: Shelly Jyoti and Laura Kina Curated by Greg Lunceford and Lanny Silverman 2013-01-26 through 2013-04-27 Opening Reception: Friday, 2013-01-25, 17:30-19:30 CST (Local Time) Chicago Cultural Center The Chicago Rooms 78 E. Washington Street Chicago, Illinois 60638 Shelly Jyoti, Visual Artist, Fashion Designer, Poet, Researcher and Independent Curator Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and…

  • Between 1920 and 1949, Collins documented African American life, capturing images of graduations, communions, and recitals, and allowing her subjects to help craft their images. She supported herself and her family throughout the Great Depression and in the process created an enduring pictorial record of her particular time and place. Collins left behind a visual…

  • A Unique Slant of Light: The Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana University Press of Mississippi 2012-09-20 450 pages 9 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches, 400+ color illustrations, foreword, introduction, bibliography, index of artists Cloth ISBN: 978-1-61703-690-3   Edited By: Michael Sartisky, President Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities J. Richard Gruber, Director Emeritus Ogden Museum…

  • ‘We have a race problem in England’ The Voice London, England 2013-03-06 Hazelann Williams Arinze Kene says he does not do politics. But for anyone who has seen one of Kene’s plays, it may sound like an unusual statement because the prolific playwright has written many plays about the state of society, ranging from life…

  • Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series Weisman Art Museum University of Minnesota 333 East River Road Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 (612) 625-9494 2013-02-16 through 2013-05-12 Laylah Ali, Associate Professor of Art Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts Join us for a talk with Laylah Ali on March 7, 2013. WAM is pleased to present Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series.…