Deadline September 1, 2016 The Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program, provides FREE professional development opportunities to emerging artists residing in the New York metropolitan... Read More
Jazz on the Plaza – Johnathan Blake
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Thursday, June 9, 2016, 12:30—1:45pm On the plaza at 53rd Street @ Lexington Avenue... Read More
BRIC Arts – Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
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Bric Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival While other artists have ridden the waves of passing fads, Brooklyn’s own Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings have bypassed the hype-and-hit superhighway... Read More
Why should candidates address or be expected to have a policy on funding and support of the arts? Not just the NEA, but community, regional,... Read More
A friend and colleague sent me the New York Times Opinion Piece “The End of Black Harlem” and I’m trying to process how to suppress... Read More
I hope you find artists Jeffrey Gibson, Ethnographic’s Collections Researcher and Mickalene Thomas, Painter, Photographer, Filmmaker, perspectives enlightening. Over the next several weeks to come, I... Read More
Conversations in Black Freedom Studies
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This month’s program marks 50 years since Stokely Carmichael galvanized the Black Power generation in June 1966; and it suggests the long road to the... Read More
First Fridays: LGBTQ Black Pride Edition
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A celebration of inspiring LGBTQ pioneers and the rich history housed in The Life Archive collection at the second annual First Fridays: Black LGBTQ Pride Edition. Groove to... Read More

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