Ormond Memorial Art Museum and Gardens recently hosted an exhibit by a well-known African American artist in Florida, Charles Humes Jr. from Dec. 12, 2024–Feb. 9, 2025. Born in Miami, Humes comes from a rich family heritage of Grand Turk, Exuma and the Eleuthera Islands of the Bahamas. He has been a professional fine artist…

Table of Contents Table of Contents Ask the Chatbot a Question Quick Facts Date: c. 1918 – 1937 (Show more) Visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance, like the dramatists, attempted to win control over representation of their people from white caricature and denigration while developing a new repertoire of images. Prior to World War I, Black…

Harlem Renaissance, a blossoming (c. 1918–37) of African American culture, particularly in the creative arts, and the most influential movement in African American literary history. Embracing literary, musical, theatrical, and visual arts, participants sought to reconceptualize “the Negro” apart from the white stereotypes that had influenced Black peoples’ relationship to their heritage and to each…

Lieutenant Governor David Toland recently announced applications are now being accepted for four Kansas Arts Commission (KAC) grant programs that support a wide range of arts and cultural activities across the state.

Visitors to the The Finer Arts Gallery will notice a fresh, new look as the Cave Creek gallery just completed its six-month rotation of art in its 4,000-square-foot gallery. Many of the gallery’s 50 artists are showing new work and several new artists to the gallery have contributed to the gallery’s diverse collection of fine…

Be Clark—whose return to her art “came out of necessity for her mental health”—gives us a deeper look at the process behind two of her most powerful works. By Jane Marion | BE: A Mental Health Magazine 2025 Clark with her piece ‘A Little Bit Bruised.’ —Photography by Barry Blackwell Growing up in Chicago, Nicole…

WILSON, N.C. — February 14, 2025 —The Friends of Visual Arts Spring Lecture, presented by the Barton Art Galleries at Barton College, will feature Carly Jones, President and CEO of Artspace in Raleigh, N.C. The event will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 25, at 6 p.m., in the Barton Art Galleries in Case Art Building…

Jonathan Lethem, Roy Edward Disney ’51 Professor of Creative Writing and professor of English, is best known for his many critically acclaimed novels, including Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude and Brooklyn Crime Novel. Last July, Lethem published his first volume of art writings titled Cellophane Bricks, “a kind of stealth memoir of his parallel…

Adrien Mondot is no stranger to multidisciplinary work. Alongside his collaborator Claire Bardainne, Mondot has merged visual, musical, technological, and digital media through the eponymous Adrien M & Claire B studio. Piano piano is one such project, achieving a unique interplay between music and light. First conceived in 2023, Piano piano is a collaboration between…