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DC:ART: What’s on your mind?/Narratives of Counterfeit Persona/Curator ~Edgar Endress
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
GA: ART: SCAD Museum of Art presents “The Art of Faith Ringgold: Story Quilts and Freedom Quests”
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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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DC:POETRY: American Poetry Museum – INTERSECTIONS IS TOMORROW featuring Ishion Hutchinson
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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. |
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CAVE CANEM FELLOWS READING
CAVE CANEM FELLOWS READING
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2011
7:00 PM
$10.00
(SUGGESTED DONATION)Charles Sumner School | 1201 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
7:00 PM
$10.00
(SUGGESTED DONATION)Charles Sumner School | 1201 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
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.
DC:ART:Around My Way: Art Openings in Anacostia this Friday!
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MD:POETRY: OUT LOUD FOR DR. KING! JANUARY 17
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DC:MUSIC: the Cornel West theory performing in D.C., Pittsburgh, Pa. & Columbus, Ohio
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DC:ART:Save the Date: Romare Bearden, American Modernist
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