Posts Tagged ‘Art’
2023 Essence Festival of Culture
Essence Music Festival is the event that “Parties With a Purpose“. It draws over 600,000 festival-goers a year. It has become the largest African-American culture and music event in the United States. The EMF brings “star-studded” actors and actresses, major artists, empowerment workshops, shopping, food, and more to the famous City of New Orleans.
Read MoreOdunde Festival 2023
The largest African American street festival held in the country. The ODUNDE festival, whose concept originates from the Yoruba people of Nigeria, West Africa, celebrates the coming of another year for African Americans and Africanized people around the world.
Read MoreBlack Space: Group Therapy Experience (WOMXN)
Black Space is a community organization that provides free group therapeutic experiences for Black and Brown communities. In an effort to destigmatize mental wellness, Dr. Lia A. Knox, Corey Fells, and Darius Smith have come together to create beautiful and safe spaces, designated for healing communities that have been burdened by economic suppression, racial disparities in and limited access to quality health care, and a lack of culturally competent mental health providers.
Read MoreThomas Commeraw: the Black 19th-century potter who historians assumed was white
The New York Historical Society is hosting an exhibit about acclaimed potter Thomas Commeraw, a Black man long thought to be white.
Read Morere:mancipation – Opening Celebration
Using the sculpture “Emancipation Group” as its central focus re:mancipation will seek to explore, dissect, and better understand racism in America.
Read MoreAfrochella
The Afrochella Experience Is A Celebration Of Africa’s Diverse Culture And The Vibrant Work Of African Creatives & Entrepreneurs.
Read MoreBlack Arts Milwaukee Donation Event
Help celebrate and support Black Arts Milwaukee. BAM is increasing the availability and quality of African American arts and culture while providing MKE-based artists of color with employment, access, visibility, and development opportunities through high quality public performances.
Read MoreAfro Punk Bahia 2023
More than a party. A celebration. More than a festival. An experience. With the sway of the tides serving as an amplifier of voices, we transformed the Convention Center of Salvador into a grand tour of celebration of Afro-Diasporic black culture.
Read MoreIt Took Eight Years, an Army of Engineers, and 1,600 Pounds of Chains to Bring Artist Charles Gaines’s Profound Meditation on America to Life. Now, It’s Here
Charles Gaines’ vision for an art exhibition that examines the role capitalism and other forces have on American society has come to fruition.
Read MoreJameson Green Won’t Apologize for His Confrontational Paintings. Collectors Love Him for It
Jameson Green’s art sometimes makes viewers uncomfortable because it shines a light on racism–and that’s what makes it so important.
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