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FSU’s Museum of Fine Arts announces guest lecture series
The Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA) will host a series of guest lectures that will highlight speakers who utilize diverse approaches to their creative practice and lead discussions that are vital to the arts and the community.
Meredith Lynn, MoFA’s assistant curator and director of galleries, said that the museum is thrilled to bring these artists to the FSU community.
“Although they work across different media, Earlonne Woods, Nigel Poor, Hank Willis Thomas and Wendy Red Star have all illuminated historic and structural inequalities and shaped our ongoing conversations about the impacts of mass incarceration, colonialism and institutional racism,” Lynn said. “Our students are currently contending with these issues in their lives and in our classrooms, and it is our hope that these programs will inform and uplift the vital work happening in our community.”
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
BLACK photographers have been largely ignored by the mainstream media both here and in the US, so it is particularly welcome that this online virtual tour of the exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) is a reminder of what a powerful contribution to the art of photography such individuals have made.
Working Together features more than 150 photographs by Louis Draper and other members of the Kamoinge Workshop, a photography collective he helped found in New York in 1963, and he became one of its chief mentors.
On show are valuable documents and publications related to the formation of the collective and this exhibition explores the impact of this remarkable group of African-American artists on the history of photography in the latter part of the 20th century.
The Studio Museum in Harlem
At the moment, The Studio Museum in Harlem remains closed to the public as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. But the institution s history and cultural significance is available to visitors in Utah thanks to a traveling exhibition.
Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem opens this week at the University of Utah s Utah Museum of Fine Arts to showcase work from The Studio Museum s permanent collection. Founded in 1968, The Studio Museum has become a repository of great works by artists of African descent, as well as a location for artist-in-residence fellowships and nurturing up-and-coming artists.
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Caribbean Roots Artist Collaborates with Rihanna To Interpret Beauty
News Americas Now introduces us to Lorna Simpson, the “Caribbean roots artist [who] has teamed up with the Caribbean’s biggest superstar to interpret modern-day beauty.” [See our previous post Lorna Simpson Shoots Rihanna.]
Brooklyn-born Lorna Simpson, whose father is Jamaican-Cuban, collaborated with Rihanna for ESSENCE’s January/February 2021 issue.
The magazine commissioned the esteemed Lorna Simpson to interpret modern-day beauty in collaboration with Rihanna and the result is a series of original photographic collages for the cover and 12-page portfolio entitled, “Of Earth & Sky.”
Simpson grew up in Crown Heights in Brooklyn, New York and attended the High School of Art and Design. She later attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 1982 and her Master of Fine Arts degree in visual arts, from the University of