Catherine Anchin, New Director at Arlington Arts Center, Chats About The Past and Future
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Holly Koons, who left the center in October of 2020 to become director of the new Christopher Newport University Fine Arts Center in Newport News, Virginia. For the past nine years, Anchin has worked at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, first as a development officer and then as an assistant (and later associate) director for advancement and external affairs. Prior to her work at the Museum of African Art, Anchin worked at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Museum of Contempo
Since its founding in 1970, the Songwriters Hall of Fame has honored only 31 women out of its 439 inductees. (In 2002, Simpson was inducted alongside her late husband Nick Ashford). In June 2022, this number will increase to 32 women when Mariah Carey and 13 men are inducted at the 51st annual awards gala, which has been postponed twice because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In an email to
Billboard, Linda Moran, president and CEO of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, said that she and her colleagues are unfamiliar with the Women Songwriters Hall of Fame and declined to comment on the organization.
While DeLoatch aims to celebrate the contributions of women songwriters whose recognition is overdue, she stresses that the event is inclusive of all women regardless of race or genre. It is not meant just to celebrate Black women songwriters, she explains. It is to celebrate women of all nationalities, all colors, all backgrounds.
Find a body. Become a suspect. Take dangerous risks.
Itâs all part of the job for Willie Black in
âJordanâs Branchâ (The Permanent Press, $29.95, 232 pages), the 10th novel in Howard Owenâs Richmond-set series featuring the police reporter for the cityâs daily newspaper.
When college acquaintance Randolph Giles âStickâ Davis returns to Richmond after several years in the British West Indies, he hires Willie to write his life story for $50,000. But Stickâs murderâWillie discovers the corpseâleaves Willie with only the $5,000 down payment and Police Chief L.D. Jonesâ scrutiny.
The middle-class Westwood neighborhood where Stick lived was once a haven for former slaves and home to a portion of a creek, Jordanâs Branch. And itâs near the streamânow mostly buriedâthat Willie unearths a threat of coming destruction in Virginia.
Get ready to transcend: On May 7, the National Museum of Women in the Arts is hosting musician MovaKween as part of The Tea, its virtual concert series under its women, arts, and social change initiative. The Tea showcases women musicians as they perform and discuss their creative process with a cup of tea. This entry will focus on the Baltimore artist, who blends R&B, jazz, hip-hop, and neo-soul to create a unique futuristic sound inspired by the Divine Feminine; her debut album
AnuKween is due out this year. Her spirituality is the root of her music, her emotional state, and love: “Everything I do focuses on love,” she told the music zine
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The OFM Art Beat catches up with Boitumelo Machaba and Lerato Moleko to find out about their involvement in the #5WOMENARTISTS exhibition.
#5WOMENARTISTS is an online campaign launched by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in the USA in 2016. The campaign calls attention to the fact that women have not been treated equally in the art world, and remain unrepresented and undervalued in museums, galleries, and auction houses.
The
NWU Gallery has promoted this campaign in 2021 by hosting â
#5WOMENARTISTS The Art of Clayâ. These artists are; Ivy Rihlampfu, Pholile Hlongwane, Boitumelo Machaba, Lerato Moleko and Prudence Magagula.