“Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room” is a fabrication of a domestic space that assembles furnishings and objects to create a fiction… Read More »Afrofuturism Installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Radcliffe Bailey’s prolific work developed unique narratives of the African American experience. Bailey died of brain cancer on November 15, 2023, just 10 days before… Read More »Remembering Radcliffe Bailey
With the preponderance of evidence showing the positive impact of the fine arts on people, it is baffling that our society does not invest more… Read More »The Positive Impact of Art
Why Culture Has Come to a Standstill from a NY Times article written by Jason Farago – We are now almost a quarter of the… Read More »Has Culture Come to a Standstill?
A book of paintings by Dr. Venetta Whitaker. To be an artist is to have a story to tell. According to Annette Simmons, “To live… Read More »Tinted Ravens
By Dr. Venetta Whitaker – Art has profound healing and therapeutic powers. I believe that we all are artists whether or not we choose to… Read More »The Ten Commandments of Art
The October 19, 2023 sale of African American Art will feature exceptional modern and contemporary works of abstract and figurative art. Founded by Nigel Freeman… Read More »African American Art Auction by Swann Auction House
Seventeen students from Juliana Kuo’s Summerlin Piano Studio achieved top honors at the September 30, 2023 Jazz Festival. Each year about 100 K-12 students participate… Read More »Congratulations Summerlin Piano Studio Pianists!
Please contact your US representative to let them know that no cuts should be made to funding for the arts. Did you know that the… Read More »Support the National Endowment for the Arts
Founded by Asmaa Walton in February 2020, the library consists of literary works about Black art and artists. The Library’s collection centers on Black art… Read More »The Black Art Library