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DC:MUSIC:JAZZ: THINKING ABOUT JAZZ – Duke Ellington – December 11th, 1pm
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Southwest Renaissance Development Corporation | 400 I Street, SW | Washington | DC | 20024 |
DC:ART:FOCUS GROUP: Four Walls, Five Women Opening Reception Nov. 19
DC:ART: Around My Way: Fotoweek Anacostia – starts this Saturday! Receptions 11/10 and 11/11!
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me listening to NPR and playing with Amazon
I wonder how Simon Winchester’s the findings in his new book Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
DC:ART:Around My Way: Organica @ BlankSpace SE
ORGANICA : PHOTOGRAPHIC SERIES
by Melani N. Douglass & Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Gallery Hours: Monday – Saturday 10am -6pm
Opening Reception: November 6, 2010 at 7pm
@ Blank Space SE : 1922 MLK Jr Ave SE Washington DC 20020
The American Poetry Museum is pleased to announce the opening of ORGANICA: Photographic Series by Melani N. Douglas and Rachel Eliza Griffiths. The works to be displayed will allow its audience to appreciate the beauty in the simplistic nature of everyday life. The exhibit will feature the works of poet and photographer Rachel Eliza Griffiths, and photographer Melani N. Douglass. It will also introduce the works of student photographer James Holiday.
Rachel Eliza Griffith’s literary and visual work has been widely published in journals, magazines, anthologies, and periodicals including Callaloo, The New York Times, Crab Orchard Review, Mosaic, RATTLE, Puerto Del Sol, Brilliant Corners, Indiana Review, Lumina, Ecotone, The Acentos Review, PMS: poem memoir story, Saranac Review, Torch, The Drunken Boat, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, Inkwell, Black Arts Quarterly, African American Review, Comstock Review, Hambone, and many others.
Melani N. Douglass has been a committed leader in urban education for over 10 years. After realizing the success that students achieve through arts integrated learning environments, Ms. Douglass began a dual career as a visual artist and an educator. As an artist and educator, Ms. Douglass has conducted student workshops, teacher trainings and lectures for the Dallas Museum of Art, Milwaukee Public Charter Schools, DC Public Schools, The Reginald F. Lewis Museum, The Maryland Historical Society, the Brooklyn Friends School in New York, and the Smithsonian Institution. She has been honored by the Artist and Elaine Thornton Foundation and David Parks, son of Gordon Parks, honored Ms. Douglass as the guest Lecturer for the R. C. Hickman Young Photographers Workshop and the Gordon Parks Young Photographers Competition.
AMERICAN POETRY MUSEUM
“The American Poetry Museum is dedicated to celebrating poetry, promoting literacy, fostering meaningful dialogue, encouraging an appreciation for the diversity of the American experience, and educating local, national, and international audiences through the presentation, preservation and interpretation of American poetry.”
For additional information, Contact:
La’Tasha Banks, Program Coordinator
The American Poetry Museum
202.494.4093
lbanks@americanpoetrymuseum.org
www.americanpoetrymuseum.org
DC: ART: PHOTO: Oct 12, 2010: The African Presence in Latin America Photography of Jonathan B. French
Hispanic Cultural Society and Library of Congrss present Jonathan B. French’s “Unexpected Faces in Unexpected Places” Tuesday October 12th at Noon- 1pm in the Pickford Theatre
DC:POETRY: Praise for Tony Medina’s “My Old Man Was Always On the Lam”
Please check out Tony Medina’s (friend and mentor) latest collection of poems My Old Man Was Always On The Lam.
Happy Birthday Trane (Repost from Sept 23, 2008)
Anyone who knows me how important John Coltrane is to me. On his birthday I am always pushed to think about what it means to be an artist and how to “be a force for good”.
Rather than try to wax further poetic about it I am going to link you to a little blog i wrote and to a website that published one of my poems about Trane.
I hope it is inspiring….
Thomas Sayers Ellis was born and raised in Washington, D.C. His previous poetry collection, The Maverick Room, was awarded the John C. Zacharis First Book Award. Ellis teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and in the Lesley University low-residency MFA program, and he is a faculty member of Cave Canem. A photographer and poet, he currently divides his time between Brooklyn, New York, and Washington, D.C.