Sentences with phrase «exploring black experiences»

Adams is a New York — based multi-disciplinary artist exploring black experiences and the influence of popular culture on self - image and self - perception.

Jordan Peele snagged that title early in 2017 with Get Out, his social horror thriller that explores the black experience in America in a way no other movie has.

A literary debut that's drawing praise from the likes of Marilynn Robinson, this book explores the black experience during the Great Migration and the decades that follow through the lives of a couple and their 12 children.

Over the course of his career, multidisciplinary artist Derrick Adams has created a dizzying array of works — from vividly hued collages and assemblages to large - scale sculptural installations and performance pieces — that explore the black experience and its intersections with pop culture, consumerism, fashion, and art history.

In this audio - activated multimedia presentation, Thomas explores the black experience in the United States.

Chicago - based Marshall paints big, beautiful portraits and scene paintings that explore the black experience.

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Reconciliation Blues: A Black Evangelical's Inside View of White Christianity by Edward Gilbreath: Those in the evangelical tradition will benefit from this honest and insightful book that weaves together personal experience and historical consideration to explore the state of racial reconciliation in the church.

In my experience, the mind that is uncomfortable with staying in dissonance and exploring new resolutions, is the mind that retreats to a black - and - white division.

Burning Man: Beyond Black Rock goes behind the scenes of a social revolution to explore the philosophy that fuels it, the social contract that drives it, and the transcendent experience that makes it a worldwide cultural force.

Co-created by Rae and Larry Wilmore, the HBO hit comedy about the two women navigating work and relationships in south Los Angeles explores the black female experience not really seen onscreen since UPN's Girlfriends.

Director Dave McCary makes a superb feature debut with this offbeat black comedy, which explores the experiences of a young man rescued after years in captivity.

Created by Issa Rae and Larry Wilmore, the comedy series «Insecure» explores the contemporary black female experience in an unclichéd and authentic way.

In Black Ops 4, we're incorporating narrative gameplay experiences directly into MP and giving players the ability to learn and master each of the Specialists through solo missions that give hands - on intros to each Specialist, while exploring the stories behind their identities.

Anyhow, what drew the Oscar nominee to Black Panther was the story, which explores both historical and universal themes of the black experiBlack Panther was the story, which explores both historical and universal themes of the black experiblack experience.

The athlete, we discover, is relegated to dead - end remedial courses and is allowed to persist in his delusion that his athletic prowess will win him a full ride through college; his experience prompts Maran to explore in some detail how academic tracking and other more subtle differences in teachers» expectations contribute to a situation where 60 percent of white Berkeley High graduates attend a four - year college, while only 14 percent of black students earn enough credits to do so.

Specifically, his scholarship explores the experiences of high - achieving Black males PK - PhD and the development and experiences of Black male teachers and leaders.

In a story that's loving and haunting in equal parts, the author of Silver Sparrow explores the failures and injustices of the so - called justice system through the experiences of one black married couple.

Highlights include Undara Experience, Georgetown's Terrestrial rock and mineral collection, Karumba's unbelievable sunsets, a day at Lawn Hill George, tour to Riversleigh Fossil Fields, a drink in the Purple Pub at Normanton, Gulflander train trip to historic Croydon, a full day fossicking for agates, exploring and cruising the unique narrow Cobbold Gorge, black basalt Copperfield Gorge and a collection of miniatures at Einasliegh and flight over Wallaman Falls and the Hinchinbrook Channel.

Experience the lush landscape of the Black Forest region, explore Holland's famous windmills and waterworks and take part in the inviting nightlife in Rüdesheim's Drosselgasse.

Visitors can climb volcanoes, hang out at one of the world's most beautiful lakes (Atitlan), tour coffee plantations, experience black sand beaches with crashing surf, visit some of the world's best Mayan ruins (Tikal for one) and explore a well - preserved historic Spanish city (Antigua), to name just a few.

With our Travels In... tours, you will be treated to incredible experiences made possible by our little black book, you will stay at hand - picked hotels and the heart of your chosen destination will be further explored through delicious cuisine, traditions and personal encounters.

From new mission types and weapons, new ship parts and functions (like a modified ram that cuts through sheets of ice), new towns and places to explore like New York and the Artic, and new collectables and mini-games, Rogue takes the best elements from Assassin's Creed III and Black Flag and adds a couple of new elements to the mix to make it a very solid and compelling experience.

Black Ops 4 goes deeper than ever before into the fiction of multiplayer, where players will explore the world of Specialists... who they are, why they exist, and what battles they fight together... while mastering their gameplay through solo and multiplayer combat experiences.

In Black Ops 4, we're incorporating narrative gameplay experiences directly into MP and giving players the ability to learn and master each of the Specialists through solo missions that give hands - on intros to each Specialist, while exploring the stories behind their identities.

Black Ops 4 goes deeper than ever before into the fiction of multiplayer, where players will explore the world of Specialists — who they are, why they exist, and what battles they fight together — while mastering their gameplay through solo and multiplayer combat experiences.

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.

«RASHID JOHNSON: Anxious Men» @ The Drawing Center New York, N.Y. Over the past 15 years or so, Rashid Johnson «s practice has explored a range of themes, including «the black experience in America, the dialogue between abstraction and figuration, and the relationship between art and personal identity.»

Gates proposes new ways of honouring and remembering Black experience and explores the potential of these spaces through music, dance, video, sculpture and painting.

Himid has said, «The point I am often exploring vis - à - vis the black experience is that of being so very visible and different in the White Western everyday yet so invisible and disregarded in the cultural, historical, political or economic record or history.»

Infinite Receptors These works are part of an ongoing body of paintings and drawings called Infinite Receptors that explores issues related to lived experiences of black bodies today.

Marshall creates large - scale paintings that explore African American culture from the Civil Rights to today, drawing from and weaving a history of black experience into his narratives.

One of the most celebrated painters currently working in the United States, Marshall explores through his work the experiences of African Americans and the narratives of American history that have often excluded black people.

His work often explores the experiences of African Americans and narratives of American history that have historically excluded black people.

Originally performed on an outdoor basketball court, with its five acts structured as the four quarters and overtime of a basketball game, this multi-character performance explores the experience of being Black in America through the relationship between a young man named Jamel and his mother.

Whitten was hugely influenced by de Kooning (whom he has admitted to following around like a puppy) but his work, which explores the possibilities of paint, also examines abstraction as a valid form of engaging with the black experience.

This fall, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania (ICA) will present Speech / Acts, a group exhibition bringing together the work of a new generation of artists exploring how the social and cultural constructs of language have shaped black American experiences.

«By delving into the subconscious mind of a fictitious black heroine and the ephemeral quality of her thoughts and experiences,» the artist has said, «these are an attempt to structure a new mythology that explores black female sexuality and sensuality.»

«By delving into the subconscious mind of a fictitious black heroine and the ephemeral quality of her thoughts and experiences, these are an attempt to structure a new mythology that explores black female sexuality and sensuality.»

Speech / Acts, a group exhibition featuring new and recent works by artists Jibade - Khalil Huffman, Steffani Jemison, Tony Lewis, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Martine Syms, explores experimental black poetry and how the social and cultural constructs of language have shaped black American experiences.

A successful artist in his thirties, though not yet represented in the Tate collection, Johnson explores the «black experience» with wry objectivity.

In a UK premiere of DISCOTROPIC Alien Talk Show (2015), niv Acosta seizes on an elementary medium of intimate exposure — television and the confessional culture of the talk show — to explore the relationships between science fiction, disco, astrophysics and the black American experience.

This group show features new and recent works by Jibade - Khalil Huffman, Steffani Jemison, Tony Lewis, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Martine Syms and «explores experimental black poetry and how the social and cultural constructs of language have shaped black American experiences.»

Featuring: Amna Asghar, Dana Davenport, Umber Majeed, Tammy Nguyen, Ke Peng, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Sheida Soleimani Amna Asghar speaks on the construction and translation of disparate references, cultures, geographies, and generations from Pakistan and America; Dana Davenport addresses the complexity of interminority racism within her own community and institutions from her experiences as a Black Korean American; Umber Majeed's practice attempts to unpack the temporalities within South Asia as site, familial archival material, popular culture, and modern national state narratives; Tammy Nguyen interrogates natural sciences and non-human forms to explore racial intimacies and US military involvement in the Pacific Rim; Ke Peng documents the feeling of alienation and disorientation from urbanization and immigration by taking a journey into an imagined childhood in China, Hunan, where she was born and Shenzhen, a modern city where her family relocates to; Sahana Ramakrishan explores myths and religion from Buddhist and Hindu tales to speak upon the magic of childhood and the power dynamics of sexuality, race, and violence; Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian - American artist and a daughter of political refugees, making work to highlight her critical perspective on the historical and contemporary socio - political occurrences in Iran.

Wangechi Mutu explores the violence and misrepresentation that women, particularly black women, experience in the contemporary world.

Nov. 11, 2015 — April 3, 2016 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.

The eighth annual «(Re) Happening,» on the grounds of the former Black Mountain College, drew hundreds March 31 to listen, touch, explore and experience.

His work explores the experiences of African Americans and the narratives of American history that have often excluded black people.

Co-created by Chris Johnson, Hank Willis Thomas, Bayeté Ross Smith, and Kamal Sinclair, Question Bridge is a five - channel video installation giving voice to black males — exploring identity and a range of issues, highlighting a diversity of thought and experience.

Francesco Vezzoli's Sacrilegio transforms the Gagosian Gallery's 21st exhibition space into a black walled religious experience which explores the sanctification of secular images and cultural.

A onetime Whitney Biennialist who has shown everywhere from Tate Modern to the Studio Museum in Harlem, where he was a breakout star of the 2001 «Freestyle» show, Sanford Biggers explores the visual traces of the African - American experience and the black diasporic condition generally.