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EXHIBITIONS
Pictures, Words and Music
"Pictures, like songs, should be left to make their own way in the world. All they can reasonably ask of us is that we place them on the wall, in the best light, and for the rest allow them to speak for themselves...
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Legacy of Photography: Art and Agency
Visit the Hartford Public Library for Neighborhood Studios SNAP! Photography's public exhibition located on the 3rd floor. Apprentices explore themes of self-identity, mass media, gang violence, social and political issues. Exhibition runs now through Winter 2018.
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Join Us!
Friday, June 15, 2018
From Galveston to Chicago to Harlem to Hartford
"The Evolution of Emancipation"
at The Amistad Center!
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DEADLINE EXTENDED
Neighborhood Studios
Under the guidance of a master teaching artist and the SNAP! Photography studio team, apprentices will improve their skills and knowledge of photography. Apprentices will learn about the history of photography, how to operate a camera, and how to design and install a photography exhibit. Apprentices will learn how to use digital and film cameras, how to develop photographs in a darkroom and edit images with Photoshop software. Apprentices will explore the theme "The Journey of Words to Images." Learn More
Neighborhood Studios is the Greater Hartford Arts Council's award-winning summer arts apprenticeship program, offering a one-of-a-kind learning experience in the arts, providing Greater Hartford teens with paid, hands-on artistic training and valuable career skills essential to today's workforce. For six weeks each summer, the program sends participating teens to art studios at cultural organizations throughout Hartford, uniting both students and their families to the city's diverse arts and cultural community.
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Imagemakers & Storytellers Session
(Ages 11-13)
Monday, August 13-Friday, August 17, 2018
9 am-12 pm
Draw inspiration from the past to tell your story! Discover all the ways images have been used over the years to tell stories and capture moments in American history. Analyze the evolution of storytelling through images - from 19th-century black and white photographs from Hartford daguerreotypist Augustus Washington to the modern creation of the comic book. Learn about the techniques they used and create your own stories through the mediums of photography, comic books, images, and text.
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In partnership with the Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library
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COMMUNITY
Tnmot Aztro Performance Art and Dance Installation LLC, Presents: Citizen
Thursday, April 26 | 5:30 pm
Hartford Public Library, Downtown Branch
Free to the Public
Arien Wilkerson inspired by the themes of Citizen: An American Lyric will create the visual landscape of the performance set, sounds, props, sculptures, audience seating, technical runs, and lighting with help of David Borawski and Rickey Silverspoon.
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Francine Austin Presents: An Evening of Philanthropy with Tamron Hall
Friday, April 20 | 5:30 pm
The Bushnell Center
Celebrate philanthropy with award winning journalist and former "Today Show" co-host, Tamron Hall. Known for her compelling storytelling and passionate advocacy for children, literacy and philanthropy, Hall will inspire the audience to understand the power of investing in the community and creating a proud legacy.
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CULTURE
The Week in African American Art: Kehinde Wiley Signed with a Hollywood Agent & More
by Victoria L. Valentine | Culture Type
Kehinde Wiley
(above) has a Hollywood agent. The Brooklyn-based artist
joined Brillstein Entertainment Partners
in Los Angeles. The talent agency will handle licensing his paintings for use on screen, identify opportunities to direct and produce films, option books, and develop original material and collaborate with screenwriters. The announcement follows the appearance of Wiley's paintings on a few seasons of the Fox television series Empire and his historic turn as the first African American artist to paint an official presidential portrait for the National Portrait Gallery.
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In Paris, Black Doll Exhibition Explores Women's Craft, History of Childhood Play, and Dynamics of America's Racial Structure
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Victoria L. Valentine
Culture Type
A new exhibition at La Maison Rouge in Paris presents art objects produced during an earlier period in American history. "Black Dolls: The Deborah Neff Collection" (2018) features more than 200 dolls hand made between the 1840s and 1940s. While the other exhibitions present works made by artists intended as art objects, these items were crafted as items of everyday play and companionship for children. The dolls are believed to be designed and crafted by African Americans, primarily black women, for their own children or for the white children in their charge, during and after slavery. They are objects of beauty, curiosity and originality, toys that speak to the history of race, gender roles, domestic relationships, and caregiving.
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Record-Setting African American Art Auction Gives Swann Galleries Highest-Ever Sales Total in Company History
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Victoria L. Valentine | Culture Type
Swann Auction Galleries held its biannual
African-American Fine Art sale
Thursday and prime lots by Delaney, White, Hale Woodruff, and William H. Johnson rocketed past their high estimates, setting artist's records. The overall sales total was $4,509,540, a Swann record, not just for a sale in its African-American Fine Art department, but for the entire auction house over the course of its more than 75-year history. The new benchmark is a remarkable feat and signals the strength of the market for works by modern and contemporary African American artists, which remains largely undervalued after generations of under-recognition.
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Tracy K. Smith, America's Poet Laureate, Is a Woman With a Mission
by Ruth Franklin | The New York Times
Tracy K. Smith's poetry - written in everyday language, without neologisms or convoluted syntax - is easy to take in, but it can be difficult to process. Much of her latest book is devoted to examining the history and legacy of slavery. The long poem "I Will Tell You the Truth About This, I Will Tell You All About It," which elicited murmurs from the audience each of the three times I heard Smith read it, collages snippets of letters and depositions from African-Americans enlisted in the Civil War and their families.
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Congo's Talented Artists Struggle for Recognition
by Anita Powell | VOA
Painter Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga's tiny, sweltering Kinshasa studio seems worlds away from his glittering, well-received foreign exhibitions.The 25-year-old painter says he is inspired by his country's vast cultural and mineral wealth - but also by the region's painful colonial history.That message shines through in his captivating, dizzyingly bright paintings of figures garbed in bright Congolese and French textiles, their dark skin scarred by the signature markings of computer circuit boards, which are often made of Congolese-mined cobalt. Ilunga's work has been exhibited in South Africa, Europe and the United States, as African art has grown increasingly more popular.
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Review: A Living Archive of Contemporary Black Dance
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Siobhan Burke |
The New York Times
After performing in seven works by seven choreographers on Friday night, the dancer Gesel Mason said with a laugh, "I can't keep doing this." Fifteen years ago, Ms. Mason embarked on an ambitious and necessary project that has continued evolving and expanding, "
No Boundaries: Dancing the Visions of Contemporary Black Choreographers
." Over the weekend, she presented it live at the Billie Holiday Theater in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, for what she said would be the last time.
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'Father Comes From the Wars' A Long But Easy To Follow Journey At Yale Rep
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newsamericas |
News Americas
A Caribbean-born artist has made history by collaborating to create the first public monument to a black woman in Denmark.Tobago-born, St. Croix-based artist, La Vaughn Belle, collaborated with Copenhagen-based Jeannette Ehlers, to create "I Am Queen Mary," a tribute to Mary Thomas, a 19th-century freedom fighter who led a major uprising on St. Croix, one of the Virgin Islands that was then part of the Danish West Indies.
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THANK YOU
Frederick Douglass
February 1818-February 20, 1895
The Amistad Center for Art & Culture
1987-Present
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