Belinda Zhawi is a Zimbabwean born writer, sound artist & educator based in London. Her work explores Afro-diasporic research & narratives; how art & education can be used as intersectional tools. She was the 2016/17 Institute of ...
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Kehinde Wiley’s Portrait of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Is Jointly Acquired by the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art
Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye has been acquired by the Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art, marking the first time the museums have jointly bought a work. It is also the first acquisition of a ...
Los Angeles Theatre Commits To BIPOC Artists After Playwright Jeremy O. Harris Pulls Show Over Lack Of Representation
"As an Angeleno and a lover of theatre, I think Los Angeles audiences deserve an equitable showing of the playwrights working in the U.S. right now." In October playwright Jeremy O Harris announced that he would begin the process of removing his ...
An Alabama Quilting Collective Receives $250K to Build a Museum
The Freedom Quilting Bee Legacy, a nonprofit in Alberta, Alabama, has received a $250,000 grant from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership to build a museum honoring the legacy of a historical quilting collective that ...