Sentences with phrase «black history museum»

Examine the city's colorful history at the Lyceum, see the home of Alexandria's founder, John Carlyle, at the famed Carlyle House or uncover the history of the city's African - American residents at the Alexandria Black History Museum.

6 - 8 p.m. Alexandria Black History Museum, 902 Wythe St., Alexandria.

Saturday, Feb 3, 7 — 11:30 pm Marble Hall and the Atrium Advance ticket sales only: $ 45 ($ 35 for members of VMFA or Black History Museum) Must be 21 + to attend

The Alexandria Black History Museum has a new exhibit titled «Portraits of Black Music: Photographs by Jonathan B. French and Edward C. Keith III.»

For this month's waterfront theme, the Torpedo Factory is partnering with several local organizations, including the Archeology Museum, the Black History Museum, Gadsby's Tavern, the Lyceum, the Apothecary Museum and Ivy Hill Cemetery.

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Historically, Alexandria was an inspiration and road to freedom for many African Americans from the Civil War through civil rights, and many of those stories are detailed at the Alexandria Black History Museum and at Freedom House Museum.

Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia Children's Museum of Richmond Berkeley Plantation Edgar Allan Poe Museum Shirley Plantation

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Many cities across the United States and the world have museums focused on the history and contributions of black people.

January 15: The Spellman Museum hosts a celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., with a special Black History exhibit and numerous hands - on activities and take homes involving stamps (Weston)

On Sunday, February 21, the Bronx Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. presents its 2016 Black History Month community arts event, Our Voices, Our Story, Our History at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse (East -LSB-...]

From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., the vice president for administration and finance of CUNY's Stella and Charles Guttman Community College, Mary Coleman, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone President and CEO Kenneth Knuckles, Food Bank For New York President and CEO Margarette Purvis and Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice Executive Director David Shuffler, will be honored by Rep. Jose Serrano and state Sen. Jose M. Serrano a Black History Month event; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, the Bronx.

At 2:30 p.m., Hochul marks Black History Month with a visit to the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts with elected officials, 80 Hanson Pl., Brooklyn.

At 7 p.m., Mayor de Blasio will host a black history month celebration, American Museum of Natural History, 81st Street between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue, New Yorhistory month celebration, American Museum of Natural History, 81st Street between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue, New YorHistory, 81st Street between Central Park West & Columbus Avenue, New York City.

7:00 PM — Mayor and First Lady will host a Black History Month Celebration at the American Museum of Natural History.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray honored Lynch with a proclamation as part of their Black History Month Celebration at the American Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side on Thursday night.

In dedicating the National Museum of African American History and Culture, President Obama said the story of black Americans is the story of the nation's essential greatness.

«Hummingbirds have bright, iridescent feathers, but if you took a hummingbird feather and smashed it into tiny pieces, you'd only see black dust,» explained Chad Eliason, a postdoctoral researcher at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, in a press release.

Naomi struck a rather revealing pose at the American Museum of Natural History Gala in New York City thanks to this ornate Tom Ford Spring 2014 black appliqué gown.

Immediately following the Q&A, guests are invited to Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture for the Black Lightning premiere party.

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When a 30 - foot prehistoric crocodile devours a scuba diver in the largely unoccupied waters of Black Lake in Maine, Fonda's Kelly Scott, a paleontologist at the American Museum Of Natural History in New York, is sent to examine the creature's tooth.

We're negotiating for films from UCLA Film & Television Archive, George Eastman House, Museum of Modern Art, the British Film Institute, the National Museum of African American History Culture, the Tyler Texas Black Film Collection at SMU and private collectors — we're calling in all favors.

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As one historian notes in Charles Burnett's hour - long TV documentary, Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003), screening Sunday at the DuSable Museum of African American History, we have precise information about Turner's victims but know almost nothing about the slaughtered blacks.

We see New York's AMNH (American Museum of Natural History) and environments in black - and - white in 1927.

After founding the Tumblr Black Contemporary Art and the Twitter and Instagram accounts Museum Mammy, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's social media manager works to bring new voices and audiences into the art history establishment.

His artwork has been inducted into Smithsonian African American History Museum, as well as collections including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the St. Louis Art Museum.

Some of us aren't fortunate enough to have the benefit of institutions like the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture (Baltimore, MD) or the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York, NY) in our hometowns, but many similar institutions offer a variety of school programs designed to educate young people — not only about the legacy of chattel slavery in America, but also the legacy of resistance and activism against injustice that it nurtured.

«We believe that events like the strikes of maritime workers, the Stonewall rebellion, the fight for the 8 - hour day, rent strikes, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the Black nationalist movement and the rest of our history deserves to be seen by the very people who build and provide the resources to maintain cultural institutions like our foundations and museums.

Fifty Leon County teachers visit Florida A&M's Meek - Eaton Black Archives & Museum to learn how to better integrate local information into black history lesBlack Archives & Museum to learn how to better integrate local information into black history lesblack history lessons.

Colin Peck presents the results of his researches into the genre / The Ballot 2LS, part six — Our Publisher continues his review of this landmark Vintage car by describing the example once owned by Ian Connell and now in George Wingard's collection in Eugene, Oregon / Auto - biography: Brian Sewell — In the latest instalment of his series interviewing personalities from the old - car world, Matthew Bell visits art critic Brian Sewell / The 1926 - 27 Grand Prix Talbot - Darracqs, part one — In the first of a three - part series recounting the long careers of these famous racing cars, Simon Moore describes their origins and works competition histories / Back on the Road — Michael Ware visits the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley, West Midlands, to inspect a rare and recently restored 1914 Briton 10/12

«Generations of black abstract painters never seem to be celebrated,» says Valerie Cassel Oliver, senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, where she recently organized «Black in the Abstract,» a two - part exhibition that focused on the history of African American painters working in abstracblack abstract painters never seem to be celebrated,» says Valerie Cassel Oliver, senior curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, where she recently organized «Black in the Abstract,» a two - part exhibition that focused on the history of African American painters working in abstracBlack in the Abstract,» a two - part exhibition that focused on the history of African American painters working in abstraction.

Opening: «Kerry James Marshall: Mastry» at Met Breuer This mid-career survey, one of the most hotly anticipated New York museum shows of the year, focuses on the work of Kerry James Marshall, the Chicagoan painter whose paintings and drawings, for the past 35 years, have focused on the position of black artists in art history.

ALISON SAAR, «Bearing» @ Museum of the African Diaspora San Francisco Los Angeles - based artist Alison Saar explores African American culture and history, including the legacy of slavery, spiritual traditions and the generational experiences of black women.

For one, there is an institutional urgency to speak to a more diverse audience with painting that depicts the black community, the Asian - American experience, the Latino face, to attract the various people who had been excluded from the museum by remaking the history of figurative painting, this time with color.

Rallying against overwhelmingly white, male perspectives in art history, «We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 - 85» at the California African American Museum (CAAM) is...

For over three decades, painter Kerry James Marshall has been addressing the absence of black people in art history, so this survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — a keeper of the canon — should be major.

In commemoration of the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Theaster Gates — along with the Black Monks of Mississippi and three students on Howard University's track team — staged a performance at the neraby Smithsonian Hirrshhorn Museum.

«We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s - 1970s» @ Woodmere Art Museum Philadelphia This exhibition grew out of 14 oral history interviews with artists and their families, art dealers, scholar and museum curators, centers around the city organizations and institutions that provided a foundation and a platform for artists to pursue their caMuseum Philadelphia This exhibition grew out of 14 oral history interviews with artists and their families, art dealers, scholar and museum curators, centers around the city organizations and institutions that provided a foundation and a platform for artists to pursue their camuseum curators, centers around the city organizations and institutions that provided a foundation and a platform for artists to pursue their careers.

The Museum thanks Mary Emma Harris for her dedication to the history of Black Mountain College and to the Asheville Art Museum Black Mountain College Research and Collection Project.

His years - long mantra, that in order to push the Western canon of art history in a more diverse and representational direction images of black people and the black experience should hang in museums alongside the so - called «masters,» dovetailed with a promising moment for a select group of African American modern and contemporary artists.

THE SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln is presenting four exhibitions that offer a visual journey through black history, culture and politics over the past century.

Tworkov's work is currently on view at Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933 — 1957, curated by Helen Molesworth at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; and Postwar Era: A Recent History; Homages to Jack Tworkov and Claire Falkenstein, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy.

The Museum is home to one of the finest collections of modern and contemporary art in the United States and has an astonishing exhibition history, having played host to artists such as Karla Black, Matt Mullican, Cady Noland, Bridget Riley and Robert Rauschenberg.

The chronicle of the history of African Americans as photographers and as photographic subjects, based on the book «Reflections in Black» by Deborah Willis, will be shown on Thursday, March 19, at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.

Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933 - 1957 is the first comprehensive museum exhibition in the United States to examine the history of Black Mountain College (BMC).

Documenting, evoking and reflecting upon this key decade in black culture and history, «Circa 1970» presents paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and sculpture made between 1970 and 1979, all drawn from the Studio Museum's collection.

This content was used to create a five - screen video installation that has been exhibited at over thirty - five institutions, including the Brooklyn Museum; Oakland Museum of California; Birmingham Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; Milwaukee Art Museum; California African American Museum, Los Angeles; DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago; Exploratorium, San Francisco; Missouri History Museum, St. Louis; Harvey B. Gantt Center for African - American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, NC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York; and New Frontier exhibition at Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah.

Participating institutions include Candela Books + Gallery, Anderson Gallery VCUarts, Black Iris, 1708 Gallery, Elegba Folklore Society, Reynolds Gallery, the Valentine Richmond History Center, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.