Wolverine schools to host Leonardo da Vinci traveling exhibit Oct 28, 2009
In January, the Harlem Renaissance will be featured. That exhibit runs Jan. 25 through 29. (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Paintings at the White House Oct 8, 2009
"Harlem Renaissance" painter William Johnson is favored with four pieces, while Alma Thomas, a top African-American woman artist, is represented on the abstract painting front. In addition, many earthenware pieces and other works by Native Americans were chosen. (India Times, India)
Stafford's new hospital became its unofficial museum with the dedication of the new History Wall at Stafford Hospital Center Jul 27, 2009
These images are surrounded by a dozen smaller ones, including those of Capt. John Smith, George Mason, Moncure Conway and Palmer Hayden, one of the Harlem Renaissance painters. "We're very, very pleased," said Jane Conner, a Stafford author and one of the organizers for the project. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
ENCOURAGING ART: Claflin professor named S.C. Arts Commission Fellow Jun 29, 2009
It was in the 1960s and in the Great Depression, especially with the Harlem Renaissance," Howard said. "We have to get out there to promote art. As university officials, we have to make our curriculum relevant, and we need to reach out more. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Famous Missourians coming to Bonne Terre Jun 17, 2009
She was recruited for vaudeville shows after she attracted attention with her street-corner dancing and from there found success during the Harlem Renaissance in New York City as a chorus girl. She followed her success to Paris and a successful tour of Europe where she became the most successful American entertainer working in Europe. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Top Bay artists often underappreciated in life May 5, 2009
Born in Boston and long associated with the Harlem Renaissance because of his commitment to "a strictly Negro art," Johnson made major contributions to the Bay Area art scene from the 1930s into the 1960s, through teaching, exhibitions and public art commissions. He was the first West Coast artist of African American ancestry to achieve national and international recognition. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Africa: Comment & Analysis Apr 11, 2009
It led to the Harlem Renaissance, marked by authors and poets like Langston Hughes, Richard Right, Claude McKay, and Lena Horne. As a rallying ideology Pan-Africanism defined and gave life to race-based (and class-based) struggles. (allAfrica.com)
Special works from young artists Feb 27, 2009
The exhibition "A Tribute to the Artists of The Harlem Renaissance" may be showing at the Massachusetts College of Art, but the young artists responsible for the works are actually still in high school. MassArt has offered up gallery space so that special needs students from McKinley Preparatory High School can show off their paintings. (Boston Globe)
Civil Rights Pioneers Honored on Stamps Feb 22, 2009
He encouraged black writers of the Harlem Renaissance, the period during the 1920s when African-American arts flourished in New York and elsewhere. Spingarn produced books of poetry and literary criticism and was a co-founder of the publishing house Harcourt, Brace and Company. (PR Newswire)
Public invited to hear Pakay discuss his work Feb 19, 2009
One picture shows him with the Harlem Renaissance artist Beauford Delaney, who took Baldwin under his wing when he was a homeless aspiring writer. Another shows him playing cards while taking a break from writing the screenplay for a movie of the life of Malcolm X.. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Groundbreaking civil rights book revived Feb 18, 2009
The book, which came during the Harlem Renaissance, sparked similar books that raised the nation's consciousness of African-American achievements, he said. "Black people were using art and historical narrative as weapons in the civil rights movement, trying to show that black people were innately as intelligent as white people, that they weren't distinctly inferior by nature and the best way to do that they felt was by holding up the achievements of intelligent or artistic or creative black... (MSNBC -- Race)
