Hannah Traore Gallery. Discrimi-NATION: Guerrilla Girls on Bias, Money, and Art, an exhibition by the Guerrilla Girls. The anonymous collective of feminist-activist artists will present a range of poster works. They use facts, humor and outrageous visuals to expose bias and corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture.
The University of Arizona. Pronounced Love Over Rules; this exhibition showcases experimentation with mixed media and mass-produced imagery to highlight themes including social history and the battle for equality in platforms including journalism, photography, advertising and popular culture.
by Peggy McGlone, NYU News. Themes of joy and family are how Deborah Willis and co-author Kevin Merida organized their photographic biography.
by Joelle E. Menodza. Octavia’s Bookshelf, which survived the Eaton Fire, has become a haven for mutual aid resources and support. Nikki High, owener of Octavia’s Bookshelf in Pasadena, shared on social by media that her doors were open.
Cab Calloway conducting his band,’ Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Cabella Calloway Langsam.
In images sacred and profane from Venice to Lisbon, Black Africans were largely marginalized in Renaissance imagery. Represented typically as bystanders, nurses, entertainers, and servants in crowded banquet halls, the international conference Hidden in Plain Sight: Black African Lives and Visual Histories in the Early Modern World is conceived with these inescapable truths firmly in mind.
The penultimate event to this project’s conclusion is the launch of the Black Rest Podcast this Spring. Pairing artists, scholars, and activists, the Black Rest Podcast will span 9 episodes, expanding upon a 3 year long investigation into the power and practice of rest for global Black people.
June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024 Nikki Giovanni, the charismatic and iconoclastic poet, activist, children’s book author and professor wrote, irresistibly and sensuously about race, politics, gender, sex and love. She was a prolific star of the Black Arts Movement; the wave of Black nationalism that erupted during the civil rights era.
September 21, 1934 – December 13, 2024 We remember the inimitable Lorraine O’Grady, who passed away in New York at age 90. Wielding photography, performance, and words as her tools, she brought a Black feminist methodology to her sharp critiques of the art world and paved the way for the next generation of artists.
April 16, 1952 – November 29, 2024. In 1984 Westbrook became the first African-American and Asian-American to win an Olympic medal. In 1991, he founded the Peter Westbrook Foundation, which has served more than 4,000 scholar-athletes.