Category: Arts

  • Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit University of California Press February 2012 304 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780520270756 Hardback ISBN: 9780520270749 Anna O. Marley, Curator of Historical American Art Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts This beautiful book, companion publication to the exhibition of the same name, presents a complex overview of the life and career of the…

  • Beautifully written and illustrated by Faith Ringgold, this children’s book accompanies the major exhibition “Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit.”

  • An Irish Tradition With an Only-in-America Star The New York Times 2012-03-17 Sabrina Tavernise GREENVILLE, Ohio — For those feeling down about the United States and its place in the world, meet Drew Lovejoy, a 17-year-old from rural Ohio. His background could not be more American. His father is black and Baptist from Georgia and…

  • Tough lessons in CTC’s play about community destruction MPR News Minnesota Public Radio 2012-03-15 Nikki Tundel, Reporter St. Paul, Minn. — A century-old story of discrimination is the basis for a world premiere production opening Friday in Minneapolis. “Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy” is the Children’s Theatre Company’s adaption of the real-life events of…

  • Cup O’Doodles The Pennsylvania Gazette University of Pennsylvania Volume 109, Number 6 (July/August 2011) pages 54-57 Molly Petrilla Artist Gwyneth Leech C’81 started drawing on  used paper cups as a distraction when she  got “antsy,” but “then it began to really take over.”  A few hundred cups later, she spent six weeks doing the same…

  • Rumblings of The Earth: Wifredo Lam, His Work and Words Filmakers Library (an imprint of Alexander Street Press) 1996 23 minutes Denise Byrd Awards San Antonio CINEFEST, 1996 Latin American Studies Association, 1995 The Afro-Cuban artist Wifredo Lam played a leading role in bringing the art of the non-white world to the attention of the…

  • Fearless Music: Garland Jeffreys ’65 Syracuse University Magazine Volume 28, Number 3 (Fall/Winter 2011) David Marc From his ’70s hit “Wild in the Streets” to his latest album, legendary singer-songwriter Garland Jeffreys has taken on life’s big issues with his own eclectic brand of music From the pages of The New Yorker to deep inside…

  • Jarocho’s Soul: Cultural Identity and Afro-Mexican Dance University Press of America (an Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield) February 2004 182 pages Size: 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7618-2775-7 Anita González, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre Arts State University of New York, New Paltz Brown-skinned men and women move across Mexico’s national…

  • The One Drop Rule: How Black Are You? Crème Magazine 2012-02-29 Jessica Thorpe “Say it loud, I’m Black and I’m proud!”  The James Brown classic shed light on the revolution of how descendants of the African Diaspora would begin to self-identify.  Replacing racial identification terms such as “negro” and “colored,” the use of the word…

  • True Londoners Are Extinct The New York Times 2012-03-01 Craig Taylor Photo by Mark Neville. Children come to the Somerford Grove Adventure Playground in Tottenham, shown here, after school or on weekends to learn life skills like cooking. “There’s a real sense of adulthood to what the children are doing there,” Neville said. Later this…