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Tribute to Renaissance artist William H. Johnson
Born 1901, Florence, South Carolina Died 1970, Central Islip, New York Born in a small South Carolina town, William H. Johnson left for New York at seventeen and enrolled at the National Academy of Design in 1921. Though he originally intended to become a cartoonist, he won acclaim as a painter, leading to a…
African sculptures, Black migration, enevive Nykolak, expressionis landscapes, Harlem, Harlem art, Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Renaissance artist, Holcha Krake, National Academy of Design, NYC, painter, Paris, portraits, primitive paintings, sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Sweet Chariot, Swing Low, vernacular style, William H. Johnson, WPA, WWII
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Black Theaters in NYC, an almost forgotten history
Lincoln Theatre 58 W. 135th Street, New York, NY 10037 The Lincoln Theatre was a theater located on 135th Street near Lenox Avenue in Harlem, New York City. One early performer, around 1903, was Baby Florence, the child singer and dancer who grew up to be Florence Mills, the Broadway and London star.It opened in…
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Top Birds in West Harlem Parks
Top Birds in Morningside Park American Robin Black and White Warbler Black poll Warbler Cedar Waxwing Chimney Swift Common Grackle Dark-eyed Junco Double-crested Cormorant European Starling Gray Catbird Hermit Thrush Herring Gull Mallard Northern Parula Ring-billed Gull Rock Pigeon Ruby Crowned Kinglet Tufted Titmouse Yellow-bellied sapsucker Yellow-rumped warbler Total — 20 139 species observed…
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SFMOMA announces commission from internationally acclaimed Northern California-raised artist
Groundbreaking artist Kara Walker will be creating a site-specific commission for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Roberts Family Gallery, scheduled for debut in July 2024. On view free to the public and visible from Howard Street, the installation is to be the first work of art created specifically for the gallery, which opened…
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Honoring the Movement
In 1983, Congressman William D. Ford (D-MI), chairman of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee, and Rep. Conyers gave their support to Representative Katie B. Hall (D-IN) for chairman of the subcommittee that had primary jurisdiction over the MLK Holiday Bill. That same year, CBC member and freshman Representative Hall introduced the Dr.…
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From Drawings to Sculpture: The Harlem Renaissance to Now
MASTER DRAWINGS NEW YORK PANEL February 3, 2024, 3pm National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South New York, NY, 10003 Early 20th-century Black artists primarily depicted portraits of people and daily life as they lived it. Fighting against false narratives, artists of this period strove to show their humanity. Their sacrifice pushed modern art in…
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West Harlem Art Fund presents its first Winter Exhibition — Curb Appeal on Gov Island
The West Harlem Art Fund is expanding their seasonal residency on Governors Island through Winter 2024. The first organization outside of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, to offer year-round public art with an indoor installation available by appointment only. This year marks our 25th anniversary, according to Executive Director Savona Bailey-McClain, where we have presented public…
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West Harlem Art Fund Joins Fall Season With New Exhibit
New York, NY… West Harlem Art Fund will present their fall art exhibition UNDAUNTED: We Are Still Here on Governors Island in Nolan Park, Building 10B (NP10). Opening September 9th, six artists will show paintings of urban scenes, graffiti, collage, and mixed media works. This exhibition includes an immersive component with a playlist of hip-hop…
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Free Jazz Concert August 26th and 27th at NP10 Gov Island
Arts for Art proudly announces a new partnership with the West Harlem Art Fund to present In Gardens at Governors Island. In Gardens at Governors Island will feature two afternoons of FreeJazz performances, Melanie Dyer’s Siren Xypher on August 26th and Alexis Marcelo Trio on August 27th. The performances will be a highlight within a…
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Summer Pop-Up Exhibit
The West Harlem Art Fund is pleased to present our 2023 Visual Muze/Summer Artists in Residence on Governors Island. Visual Muze is a unique storytelling residency and retreat. It provides visual artists, performance artists, multi-media designers, and writers the opportunity to explore narrative forms within collaborative projects, works in progress, guest lectures, and crafts. Participants…
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Sculpture Partnerships Forged in Harlem
New York, NY… Harlem will host its first large-scale sculpture exhibition in Spring, 2024. The historic parks Morningside, St. Nicholas, and Jackie Robinson have been selected to be the featured sites for these works. Harlem Sculpture Gardens will be led by the West Harlem Art Fund and New York Artist Equity Association. They will…
AHL Foundation, Alec Rovensky, Artistic Noise, Calder Zwicky, Carl Fudge, Cecilia Alemani, Chakaia Booker, Columbia University, Debra Priestly, Dorrence Brooks Historic District, Eva Mayhabal Davis, Exalt, Inc., Jiyoung Lee, Kendal Henry, Ki Smith, Luis Pagan, Mame Diarra Speis, Matthew William Goodheart, Michael Gromley, NY Artist Equity Association, Office of Governmental and Community Affairs, Paul Kozel, Projjal Dutta, Savona Bailey-McClain, Sook Nyu Lee Kim, Street Corner Resources, Tiffany Rea-Fisher, West 135th Street ApartmentsTenant Association, West Harlem Art Fund, Yule Adams
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Haint Blu comes to West Harlem
Haint Blu is an ensemble dance-theater work seeped in memory and magic. Known as the color that Southern families paint their front porches to ward off bad spirits, Haint Blu uses performance as a center and source of healing, taking us through movement into stillness and rest: remembering, reclaiming, releasing, and restoring. It is…
Arianne Zager, Chanon Judson, Courtney J. Cook, Everett Saunders, Grace Galu Kalambay, Haint Blu, Harlem, III, Jaime Dzandu, James Lanius, Jolie Saltiel, Jonathan D. Secor, Kentoria Earle, Lori Gassie, Mame Diarra Speis, Manhattanville, Mikaila Ware, Nicholas Hussong, Nina Angela Mercer, Pia Monique Murray, Roobi Gaskins, Savona Bailey-McClain, Shirazette Tinnin, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Talvin Wilks, Tuce Yasak, West Harlem
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West Harlem Art Fund co-presents Horses Full of Steam
Director & Choreographer Hilary Brown-Istrefi Dancers Sabrina Canas, Maira Duarte & Joey Kipp Composer Mahsa Matin Visual Artist Heather Weston Art Historian & Narrator Savona Bailey-McClain Horses Full of Steam will premiere as part of the Trisk Presents’ Spring 2023 Season, June 8-10 at Trisk Theater in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; followed by outdoor site-specific performances of the…
Carlos Chavez, Diego Rivera, Heather Weston, Hilary Brown-Istrefi, Horse Power, Horses Full of Steam, Joey Kipp, Lost ballet, Mahsa Matin, Maira Duarte, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, Riverside Park Conservancy, Sabrina Canas, Savona Bailey-McClain, site specific dance, site specific performance, Summer on the Hudson, Trisk Art, Trisk Presents, Trisk Theater, Triskelion, West Harlem Art Fund, West Harlem Piers
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Gio Swaby opens in Harlem
Claire Oliver Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by artist Gio Swaby, I Will Blossom Anyway. The exhibition features life-scale textile works including six self-portraits and a grid work of nine silhouettes. This new series explores the concept of dual identities and the cognizance of “other” experienced by immigrants living in a…
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[DIAP] collaboration City College
Today, personal narratives are largely communicated, digitally. And a small graduate program at City College in West Harlem impacts these trends by blending movement, photography, printing, spatial mapping, and more to tell meaningful stories across disciplines. A partnership between West Harlem Art Fund and this MFA program makes such stories more accessible. In this way, these…
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Coming to West Harlem
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair announced details of the 2023 annual New York edition, following the notable success of last year’s return to an in-person fair event in Harlem. The 2023 iteration will take place at Malt House in the Manhattanville Factory District, 429 West 127th Street, from Thursday, May 18 through Sunday, May 21,…
1:54 Contemporary African Art, 50 Golborne, AFIKARIS, African artists, art, art fair, artists of color, Black curators, contemporary artists, DADA Gallery, Duane Thomas Gallery, Eric Firestone Gallery, Fridman Gallery, Galerie Atiss Dakar, Galerie Carole Kvanevski, Galerie Cecile Fakhoury, Galerie Number 8, KATES-FERRI PROJECTS, kó, Kristin Hjellegjerde, LatchKey Gallery, Loeve&Co, Loft Art Gallery, LouiSimone Guirandou Gallery, Luce Gallery, Malt House, Manhattanville, Mehari Sequar Gallery, Nevlunghavn, New York City, Retro Africa, SEPTIEME Gallery, Spinello Projects, Superposition Gallery, THK Gallery, West Harlem, Wunika Mukan Gallery
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Meet Rose B. Simpson
Rose B. Simpson is a mixed-media artist from Santa Clara Pueblo, NM. Her work engages ceramic sculpture, metals, fashion, performance, music, installation, writing, and custom cars. She received an MFA in Ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design in 2011, an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2018, is…
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New York Textile Month Presents Peruvian artist Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez
Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez was born in the small community of Chinchero, Peru. Like many other children, she was responsible for taking care of her family’s flock of sheep. Watching over them in the fields, she spent her time learning to spin and weave with her friends. After becoming the first person from her community to…
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Root of Color
New York, NY… In the exhibition Root of Color, artists showcase the role that color has played in bridging cultures, emotions, and traditions throughout history. For this special show in AHL’s uptown gallery, four artists of Korean and Afro-Latino backgrounds were selected. AHL Foundation, Inc. supports artists of Korean heritage working in the United States…
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Lizzio honors 17 activists
In honor of Women’s History Month, we wish to support the women activists that the singer Lizzo honored during the People Choice Award. Tireless advocates that many of us have never heard of but stay true to their mission. We need to get to know them. Amariyanna Copeny, also known as Little Miss Flint: A…
Amariyanna Copeny, Amelia Bonow, American Jewish University, Breonna Taylor, Chandi Moore, Chappaquiddick Wampanoag Tribe, CIELO. Uvalde shooting, Crystal Echo Hawk, drinking water, Emiliana Guereca, Esther Young Lim, Felicia Montes, Flint Michigan, Girls Who Code, IllumiNative, Jayla Rose Sullivan, Kara Roselle Smith, Maggie Mireles, Mujeres de Maiz, Odilia Romero, Rabbi Tarlan Rabizadeh, Reshma Saujani, Sahar Pirzada, Shirley Raines, Shout Your Abortion, Tamika Palmer, The Heart to Grow, Yasmine Aker
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