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Shaienne’s Current Rotation 🎶
by Shaienne Knox For all of us, the pandemic years (2020-??) have been difficult to say the least. For me to have any sense of normalcy or structure, especially during the beginning, I relied heavily on playlists. I had a playlist for everything from showering to cooking. My main playlist, Current Rotation, acts as place…
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Pole to Pole: a Film by Shaienne Knox
Pole to Pole follows an Atlanta pole dancing instructor and her longtime student as they recount their pole journeys thus far and consider what pole really means to them during a transitional stage in both of their lives. Pole dancing as we know it today is typically more of an “adult” genre of dancing, but…
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Zanele Muholi: Portraiture and Poetry
Zanele Muholi, Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness and Being Muholi: Portraits as Resistance Zanele Muholis’s recent exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Being Muholi: Portraits as Resistance brought together photos, poems, sculpture, and recent painting work to a space that typically is unchanging and unmoving. Quite literally, breathing life into the Museum…
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
By Shaienne Knox Irony of the Negro Policeman Jean-Michel Basquiat Original Title: Irony of the Negro Date: 1981 Style: Neo-Expressionism Genre: figurative Media: acrylic, crayon, canvas Location: Private Collection Dimensions: 183 x 122 cm “The Irony of a Negro Policeman” symbolizes the totalitarian black mass and the hypocrisy of black citizens holding authority within society. According to the documentary, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child,…
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Digital Strategy: Online Exhibits and Accessibility
By Shaienne Knox When considering the reality of museum accessibility, much can still be done to improve its range. Though exhibits actively seek to widen this range, there many barriers that simply cannont be eliminated, such as preservation of the artifacts. In one of the essays presented at the Muse Group’s 2020 web conference, entitled…
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
By Darshai Hollie The book Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement from pages 1to 170 was very informative and enjoyable. Baraba Ransby is a historian, feminist activist, and professor of History, Gender and Women Studies, and Black Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago. She focuses on the life of Ella Baker, who…
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Museums and Black Women
Re: Hammonds House, The Underground, The National Center for Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) -Jordan
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Inside the Audre Lorde Archives
The Spelman College Archives holds a compelling collection and amongst the collection is the Audre Lorde Papers. Comprised of letters, text, audio, and visual elements, the papers allow for a full view of Audre Lordes work and life. I’ve visited the archives twice this month to view letters, photos, and video work for the collection…
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Black Women and Disney
Tik-Tok: Sincerely Me My experience with Disney. My favorite princess was Cinderella and I had a custom with cinderella’s face on it. I became furious when my mom replaced her picture with mine. “rewind the costume” As I got older 2. The Princess and the Frog 3. I played a villager in the play Beauty…