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“Your Path Is Your Path”
In October of 2021, I took an impromptu trip to New York City to participate in an artist talk between Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley at the Brooklyn Museum. Sherald and Wiley are the two artist responsible for painting the official portraits of the the First Lady and President of the United States. Attending the…
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Blue Eyez On The Prize
Quite vividly do I remember the night of November 4th, 2008. Like many Americans, my family and I’s “eyez” were fixed on the TV as we watched a black man become the President-elect of the United States. The excitement I felt that night was unmatched until I saw this President-elect as a President Emeritus in…
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Art Insider Los Angeles (Pt. 2)
The following photo’s were created by Amari Arrindell.
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A Statement From The Artist, Amari Arrindell:
Authenticity and intimacy are integral and present themes in Amari Arrindell’s artistic practice, which expands space and time, genre and discipline. A self-taught film photographer documenting twenty-first-century life through portraiture and photojournalism, his work bridges the artists’ hand and subject’s aura to make compositions that feel deeply personal. Arrindell strives to tell essential stories and…
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Art Insider New York:
The following photo’s were created by Amari Arrindell.
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Sisters and Spirit: Black Lesbian Oral Histories
Sister’s and Spirit is an oral histories project that investigates the narratives of aging Black Lesbians. Through the organization ZAMI NOBLA, the short film looks to many questions surrounding spiritual representations in queer familial formations. Sister’s and Spirit: Angela Denise Davis is an interview with Angela, an ordained minister and ukulele teacher. This film looks…
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By way of introduction.
What if we consider a broad history of practices and select from them what are most important to us at this moment? What happens if we try to remember all of them–those practices–all at once? What does that look like? What if we forget them all? What does a willful forgetting look like?
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Afro-Atlantic Histories
National Gallery of Art The Curators Molly Donovan: https://www.clarkart.edu/fellow/detail/molly-donovan Kanitra Fletcher: https://arthistory.cornell.edu/kanitra-fletcher The Goals Share the history of African American artists and paintings Combine traditions with modern ideas Show the connection between Africans who were brought to the Americas during the slave trade to their homeland. (through maps. Explore the number of lost lives. Fighting…
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Darshai’s Bio
Darshan Hollie is a graduation senior, History major, and a curatorial studies minor at Spelman College. She is a shy, awkward girl who loves to read books, cook, listen to music, and watch anime. Hollie’s strength is writing and she focuses on the historical context of black women such as Ella Baker, and Billie Hoilday.