Head First (2006). Photo by Becket Logan, courtesy of Ryan Lee Gallery, New York.
The artist Emma Amos died in May, at age 83, from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease. But even as her illness progressed, the painter, printmaker, and weaver was sustained by the knowledge that her seven-decade career was finally on the brink of her first retrospective, “Color Odyssey” at the Georgia Museum of Art.
“Emma always knew that she was going to have a show with me she might not have remembered my name at the last, but she knew that I was organizing an exhibition,” Shawnya Harris, the museum’s curator of African American and African diasporic art, told Artnet News. “That really touched me.”
Written by Jacqui Palumbo, CNN
Challenging binaries and stereotypes, Swing is a pop-up series that paints a nuanced portrait of America through photography of the day-to-day lives of overlooked people and communities.
As a child, while visiting family in Texas, photographer Kennedi Carter remembers Black cowboys riding their horses on the side of the highway. That image stayed with her over the years, as the North Carolina native began her career taking emotive photographs of Black life as well as striking editorial images. (Last December, Carter notably became the youngest photographer to shoot a British Vogue cover.)
She eventually returned to the powerful memory, starting an ongoing series, Ridin Sucka Free about Black riders in American cities, such as Houston and Philadelphia.
Georgia Asian Times
January 26, 2021
HBO Max will host
Our Stories to Tell, a multi-day, virtual experience with various invite-only and public events to empower and celebrate the streamer’s commitment to African American, Asian American, LGBTQ+ and Latinx audiences during the first weekend of the Sundance Film Festival, beginning
Friday, January 29
Our Stories to Tell is a hub for visionaries within a dynamic industry, centered in diversity, rich in collaboration, celebration and elevation of ideas. HBO Max’s audience-first initiative engages multicultural viewers through relatable storytelling and cultural programming at key moments and notable industry events throughout the year including a pop-up LA experience that kicked off the campaign in 2019. At the 2020 Sundance Film Festival,
HBO Max Unveils Virtual ‘Our Stories To Tell’ Programming for Sundance (Exclusive) Sharareh Drury Elaine Welteroth, Issa Rae, Yvonne Orji, Jay Ellis, Alexander Hodge and Prentice Penny speak at the Lowkey
HBO Max is going virtual for its third annual “Our Stories to Tell” series at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The three-day event, which celebrates the streamer’s commitment to multicultural storytelling and creators, will take place Jan. 29 through 31.
The mix of invite-only and public online events will spotlight the talent and executives who bring streamer’s award-winning programming to life, featuring conversations with such talent as Holly Walker (