Poet Laureate of Carrboro, NC 2019 -2022 / 2019 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow
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THE BLACK EXHIBITION
Black-infinite, endless, and like the universe, completely uncontainable!
The Charles Sumner School, Museum and Archives
1201 – 17th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
Opening reception: Thursday, February 10, 2011 Time: 6-9 p.m.
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Savannah College of Art and Design
SCAD Museum of Art expansion will provide a permanent home for the Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies |
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| On Savannah’s Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, the SCAD Museum of Art is creating a home for one of the most significant collections of African American art at any museum in the United States. Savannah native and retired surgeon Dr. Walter O. Evans hopes to foster a greater awareness of and appreciation for the contributions of African Americans to the global art community through his donation to SCAD of major works by some of the greatest African American artists.
The 27 million USD expansion of the SCAD Museum of Art will include the creation of the Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies, as well as space for all the collections and exhibitions of the museum. For Dr. Evans, the reasons to establish a permanent home in Savannah for his collection are deeply personal. "My mother still lives here. Savannah is my home. I want children here to learn from my collection, to see themselves represented on gallery walls. I also envisioned my collection living at an institution that would not only respect and appreciate the works, but that would also create meaningful educational components around the works. I’m fortunate that such a place exists in Savannah: SCAD." When Dr. Evans and his wife, Linda, approached SCAD in 2005 with the idea of donating some of their artistic and cultural treasures to the university, SCAD President Paula Wallace didn’t hesitate. "I immediately said, ‘yes, yes, yes.’ It is not only a tremendous honor that Walter and Linda have entrusted SCAD with their cherished collection, but the opportunities for SCAD students, and students worldwide, to study such important and historical works of African American art are priceless." Upon the expected fall 2011 completion of the restoration of the 1853 freight depot of the Central of Georgia Railroad, the new SCAD Museum of Art will feature an additional 65,000 square feet of gallery, museum and educational space, including the Evans Center, classrooms and a 250-seat theater. Currently, all of the historic brick walls are stabilized with steel beams and repointed by masons with historic mortar, concrete has been poured for most of both floors, the ground has been leveled, a metal roof covers the second floor, and work on the tower has begun. "It feels good to watch the progress of the museum expansion," said Dr. Evans, who regularly tours the construction site. "SCAD has a long history of restoring buildings carefully, meticulously, on time and on budget. I’m looking forward to seeing the finished museum." From the Evans Center and SCAD’s prominent collections to the building’s design itself, the SCAD Museum of Art is poised to become one of the most important artistic and cultural centers in the country. SCAD: The University for Creative Careers |
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Tidal Basin Review will host a reading at the Thurgood Marshall Center, 1816 12th Street N.W., Washington, DC 20009. No charge. Donations welcomed. Featuring Reginald Dwayne Betts, Iman Byfield, Ching-In Chen, Michela Costello, DéLana R.A. Dameron, Kyle Dargan, Elizabeth Fogle, Brian Gilmore, and Douglas Kearney. Music by DJ AJ and refreshments to follow.
Reginald Dwayne Betts is a husband and the father of a young son. He is the author of the memoir A Question of Freedom and the poetry collection Shahid Reads His Own Palm.
Iman Byfield is an MFA-Poetry candidate at Chicago State University. She works as an editorial assistant at Third World Press, and is a poetry editor for 95Notes literary magazine. Her work has appeared in the Garland Court Review and Eight Magazine, a student publication.
Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart’s Traffic (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press). Daughter of Chinese immigrants, she is a Kundiman, Macondo and Lambda Fellow. A community organizer, she has worked in the Asian American communities of San Francisco, Oakland, and Boston. Ching-In is a member of Save Our Chinatown Committee, which is focused on preserving the historical Riverside Chinatown.
Michela Costello is a poet and teacher in Washington, DC. She is currently an adjunct professor of English and Education. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Glasgow Review, Wanderlust and Poetryfish, among others.
DéLana R.A. Dameron is the author of How God Ends Us selected by Elizabeth Alexander as the 2008 South Carolina Poetry Book Award winner. She currently resides in New York City.
Kyle Dargan is the founder and editor of POST NO ILLS magazine and an assistant professor of literature and creative writing at American University. His most recent collection is Logorrhea Dementia: A Self-Diagnosis (UGA, 2010). His first collection, The Listening, was awarded the 2003 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and his second, Bouquet of Hungers, won a 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award.
Elizabeth Fogle writes poems very much rooted in place and myth and though she is no longer living in the Carolinas or near the Atlantic, she continues to write about the places and people that haunted her as a child. She currently teaches in the English program at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College and lives in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Brian Gilmore is Poet, public interest lawyer; two books: elvis presley is alive and well and living in harlem, (Third World Press 1993); Jungle Nights and Soda Fountain Rags: Poem for Duke Ellington (Karibu Books 2001), columnist, The Progressive Media Project, contributing writer: Ebony Magazine (online); Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council in 2001, 2003; Cave Canem fellow 1997; Pushcart Prize nominee 2007.
Poet/Performer/Librettist Douglas Kearney’s work has been featured in many fine publications and venues in print, in-the-flesh and digital code. His first full-length collection of poems, Fear, Some, was published in 2006 (Red Hen Press). His second manuscript, The Black Automaton, was a National Poetry Series selection (Fence). He lives in the Valley with his family.
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Wednesday, January 26 at 6:30 pm Point of Contact ~Panel discussion
Phillips Collection/Center for the Study of Modern Art
1600 21st St., NW, Washington, DC
Participants discuss the Latino American artist experience of confronting social landscapes of today, the desire to communicate information and knowledge in an effort to spur social progress, and how arts and culture are an essential connection point in the processes of change in conjunction with the exhibition What’s on your mind? at the World Bank, curated by Edgar Endress. A particular emphasis in the discussion will be on the role of institutions, the act of participation, change, and resistance.
Participants include: Evangelina Elizondo, assistant curator, World Bank; Tania Aedo, artist and director, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City; Gustavo Romano, artist and curator of the Media Lab at the Centro Cultural de Espaňa, Buenos Aires; and Edgar Endress, artist and professor, George Mason University School of Art, Virginia. In collaboration with Provisions Library, Washington, DC
Thursday, January 27th
The World Bank Main Complex
1818 H Street, NW
5:00 to 6:30 pm ~ Art Talk and Presention
6:30 to 8:30 ~ Opening Reception
See attached invitation for details.
What’s on your mind? Narratives of the Counterfeit Persona:a ground-breaking exhibition opening Thursday 1/27 at World Bank headquarters. It features work by thirty-two Latin American media artists, curated by artist Edgar Endress.
~5pm to 6:30 pm Art Talk and Presention
~6:30 to 8:30 Opening Reception
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Savannah College of Art and Design
SCAD Museum of Art presents "The Art of Faith Ringgold: Story Quilts and Freedom Quests"January 31 – April 15, 2011 SCAD Museum |
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| The SCAD Museum of Art presents its first major exhibition of 2011 with "The Art of Faith Ringgold: Story Quilts and Freedom Quests," on view Jan. 31 through April 15 at the SCAD Museum of Art, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The exhibition will open with a lecture by Ringgold 7 p.m. Jan. 31 at SCAD’s Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St., followed by a book signing. The lecture and exhibition are free and open to the public.
Ringgold, a celebrated African American painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist and illustrator, has works in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and numerous others. The artist, who has recently celebrated her 80th birthday, is the recipient of numerous honors, among which are 22 honorary doctorates. Her painted story quilts include series such as the French Collection and the American Collection. Her children’s book Tar Beach has won Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Awards. The exhibition, "The Art of Faith Ringgold," will feature 60 pieces from across four decades, including a number of Ringgold’s most recent works directly from her New York gallery that will be on view in a museum for the first time. Seven story quilts and tankas from the Coming to Jones Road series of 2000 and 2010 capture evocative and memorable visions of a late 18th-century epic journey to freedom by a group of slaves combining dramatic episodes, and counterpointed by heroic icons from Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman to Martin Luther King Jr. Some scenes are set within hauntingly sumptuous nocturnal landscapes; all are described with a vibrant palette and set off by text-enriched backgrounds and borders. The large-scale paintings resonate with family and national historic narrative. Ringgold’s characteristic duality of beautiful imagery and deceptively simple characters and storylines repeatedly challenge the viewers to reexamine mythologies of cultural memory an d identity. The exhibition includes examples in various media by the artist, such as masks, dolls, soft sculptures, painted story quilts, drawings, prints and illustrations. In addition to Coming to Jones Road, other highlights include the Declaration of Freedom and Independence quilt (2009), Jazz Stories (2004), and the complete illustrations for Tar Beach (1991) and Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail (2007). The SCAD Museum of Art, Trustees Lecture Series, Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies, and the Savannah Black Heritage Festival sponsor the exhibition and lecture, with generous support from the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation (museum. SCAD: The University for Creative Careers |
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American Poetry Museum
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INTERSECTIONS featuring Ishion Hutchinson
THURSDAY, January 20, 2011
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM FREE EVENT (DONATIONS WELCOMED)Source Theatre | 1835 14th Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 INTERSECTIONS: A Poetry Reading Series, is the place for poetry enthusiasts. Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He attended the University of the West Indies, Mona, Ishion Hutchinson received his MFA in Poetry from New York University. His work has appeared in the LA Review, Callaloo, Caribbean Review of Books, Poetry International and the chapbook, Bryan’s Bay. Far District is his first full-length collection. |
The American Poetry Museum is co-hosting this event in conjunction with The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) 2011 Conference. Hosted by Amanda Johnston, Cave Canem Fellow, this will be an exciting evening! Over 20 Cave Canem fellows raise the roof & raise funds for Cave Canem, North America’s home for Black poetry. Several of those featured for this event are supporters of and have been a part of the INTERSECTIONS poetry reading series.
Featuring E.J. Antonio, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Remica Bingham-Risher, Derrick Brown, Erica Doyle, Jonterri Gadson, Yalonda JD Green, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Niki Herd, Randall Horton, Linda Susan Jackson, Marcus Jackson, Brandon Johnson, Bettina Judd, Rickey Laurentiis, Robin Lewis, January Gill O’Neil, Iain Pollock, Nicole Sealey & Wendy S. Walters.
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