Harlem
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Augusta Savage – Our inspiration
I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work. Augusta Savage Born Green Cove Springs, FL 1892 – died New York City March 1962 The career of Augusta Savage was fostered…
artist, Augusta Savage, Cooper Union School of Art, Gamin, Harlem, Harlem art, Harlem Artist Guild, Harlem Arts, Harlem Community Art Center, Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, Harlem Sculpture Gardens, James Weldon Johnson, Lift Every Voice and Sing, New York’s World Fair of 1939, NYC, Salon of Contemporary Negro Art, Savage Studio of Arts and Crafts, sculptor, teacher
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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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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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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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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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West Harlem Art Fund celebrates its 25th year
Kicking off the organization’s 25th anniversary, Savona Bailey-McClain, Executive Director of the West Harlem Art Fund and her organization presented a panel discussion–New Narratives in Museum Collectionsfor Master Drawings New York at the Academy of Arts and Letters on January 22nd. According to Bailey-McClain, “This is our 4th year participating with Master Drawings New York.…
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SAY THEIR NAMES
Below are the names of Black entertainers that lived in a three block radius in Central Harlem now a historic district. This shows that talent was in abundance in our community. These names are now forgotten. Let’s bring them back by saying their names. It’s quite a list. 1920 Census West 130th Street Brown, Alfred…
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STAN SQUIREWELL IN HARLEM
I am examining the relativity of global indigenous geometric patterns, specifically West African Kente schema, as a possible progenitor of modern digital cultures. I see overwhelming similarities in basic constructions and designs of computer processing chips and video games to the geometrical weave of the cloth. The vividly bold colors, precise hard lines, sequential rhythms…
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HARLEM’S FAITH RINGGOLD
Last night, a special tour of Faith Ringgold’s retrospective was offered at the New Museum by Artnoir. The works were stunning. Overwhelming at times. Everyone learned something new about Harlem’s Faith Ringgold. We highly recommend that folks see this show. The works inspired by France are worth seeing alone. There are costumes and dolls that were…
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Remembering Charles Alston
This coming Friday, West Harlem Art Fund will moderate a panel discussion on Mexican Muralism and its impact on American art. If you are familiar with the subject, you know that the movement was immortalized by Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Siqueiros. But their reach crossed North America too with several artists of…
Academy of Arts and Letters, American illustrator, American muralist, American painter, American sculptor, Augusta Savage, Charles Alston, Charles White, City College, City University of New York, David Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, Elba Lightfoot, Elizabeth Catlett, Federal Art Project, Georgiette Seabrook, Harlem Community Art Center, Harlem Hospital Murals, Jacob Lawrence, Jose Clemente Orozco, Mexican Muralism Movement, Norman Lewis, Romare Bearden, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, WPA
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Who is Hugh Hayden?
Hugh Hayden’s practice considers the anthropomorphization of the natural world as a visceral lens for exploring the human condition. Hayden transforms familiar objects through a process of selection, carving and juxtaposition to challenge our perceptions of ourselves, others and the environment. Raised in Texas and trained as an architect, his work arises from a…
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Female Hoofers
To learn even more, you can now sign up as a member and get special videos, information and invitations to special events. Tap dance is an indigenous American dance genre that evolved over a period of some three hundred years. Initially a fusion of British and West African musical and step-dance traditions in America,…
African American oral traditions, Alice Austen House, American dance styles, Baby Edwards Hunt, Bill bojangles Robinson, Black female hoofers, Bushwick Open Studio, Cab Calloway, Cholly Atkins, Cora LaRedd, Cotton Clubs, dragging, Duke Ellington, Edwina Salt Evelyn, Fats Waller, flat-footed gliding, Florence Mills, Harlem Renaissance, Hooray for Love, Irish culture, Jeni LeGon, Jewel Pepper Welch, Lang Sisters, Lena Horne, Lois Bright Miller, Louis Armstrong, Ludie Jones, ragged tunes, Roaring Twenties, shuffling steps, syncopated jig tunes, The Three Poms, USO tours, West African culture, Whitman Sisters
