OHS Junior Class PresentsProgram on the Roaring '20s Dec 31, 2008
The students had studied "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Roaring Twenties and the Harlem Renaissance. Included in the production were dances, including the Charleston, and a fashion show featuring Ms. Chanel's designs. (Voices, CT)
Fine arts students welcome jazz singer Oct 16, 2008
Gage helped reinforce the students lessons on the Harlem Renaissance by reciting period poetry from such writers as Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar. She also spoke about the history of the Harlem Renaissance and performed songs by legendary performers Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald ... Her appearance along with the stage set (props) was really unique and it complimented my understanding of what the time period of the Harlem Renaissance would be like, tenth grade student, Charles... (Florida Today)
Humanities Day provides new opportunities for discovery Oct 10, 2008
How did the Chicago Renaissance differ from the more famous Harlem Renaissance. And what has happened to Iraq s archaeological heritage since the 2003 sacking of the country s national museum. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Neadom Roberts: An unsung Trenton hero Aug 10, 2008
Trentons Neadom Roberts (left) and fellow war hero Henry Johnson pose for a picture taken by James VanDerZee, the premier photographer of the Harlem Renaissance. His great-grandnephew is spearheading a drive to put up a monument honoring Neadom Roberts, the black Trenton soldier awarded France's top military honor for his exploits in battle 90 years ago during World War I.. (The Trentonian, NJ)
'American Masters of the Miss. Gulf Coast' Aug 4, 2008
"He's from Mississippi but he goes off to be part of the Harlem Renaissance and is very much inspired by the Harlem Renaissance and the belief that the African American experience is worthy of fine art and is an important, important part of the American experience.". Black worked with curators at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, Walter Anderson Museum of Art and the Dusti Bonge Foundation to jointly select works representing those artists. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Local art collector: Guy McRae Jun 14, 2008
Grandson treasures his grandmother's work Vivian Schuyler Key was a Harlem Renaissance artist ... His largest and most significant collection consists of 26 pieces by his maternal grandmother, Vivian Schuyler Key, a Harlem Renaissance artist ... Guy McRae collects works by his grandmother, Vivian Schuyler Key, one of the Harlem Renaissance artists. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Foundation spurs young writers Feb 15, 2008
Saturday night, poet Quraysh Ali Lansana and actress and writer E'dena Hines led a program for the public at the Charleston High's Morgan Freeman Auditorium, on The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond, a partnership with the Mississippi Museum of Art in conjunction with its exhibit, Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Selections from the Philips Collection ... Bayeza led them in connecting the Harlem Renaissance to hip hop along a river of colorful history and later worked out sounds and rhythms for... (The Clarion-Ledger)
CNN Student News Learning Activities: Black History Month Feb 3, 2008
Inform students that during the 1920s and 1930s, an African-American cultural movement occurred in the United States that was known as the Harlem Renaissance ... Have your class host a Harlem Renaissance cultural fair ... Have students serve as "roaming curators" to instruct and interest guests in the Harlem Renaissance and the creative works of these great African-Americans. (CNN)
Read Indepth Article Jan 21, 2008
On Friday, Jan. 18, 2008, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts will open Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist, the first nationally touring retrospective devoted to the foremost visual artist of the Harlem Renaissance ... Frist Center Curator Katie Delmez notes, Like other participants in the Harlem Renaissance and adherents to the notion of the New Negro, Aaron Douglas wanted to embrace the culture and heritageboth good and badthat are unique to African Americans ... In 1925, he moved... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist Jan 21, 2008
Frist Center Curator Katie Delmez notes, Like other participants in the Harlem Renaissance and adherents to the notion of the New Negro, Aaron Douglas wanted to embrace the culture and heritageboth good and badthat are unique to African Americans ... In 1925, he moved to Harlem to join the cultural flourishing that has been called the New Negro Movement or the Harlem Renaissance ... Douglas collaborated with notable Harlem Renaissance writers including Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Anthology of golden age wakens pulp mags from big sleep Dec 24, 2007
The Harlem Renaissance was underway. Daly, Penzler observes, was "a hack writer devoid of literary pretension, aspiration and ability." Hammett, on the other hand, was a genius. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Pianist embraces the heritage of two countries Nov 30, 2007
From the Harlem Renaissance through the bop era, Paris offered shelter and a creative setting to African-American musicians. Although the days of Bud Powell or Dexter Gordon playing in the Latin Quarter are long gone, the City of Light remains home to more recent expatriates such as saxophonist David Murray, as well as feeding ground for a busy homegrown scene. (Boston Globe)
DHS drama club prepares for season opener Nov 14, 2007
What do you get when you take a classic Shakespearean tale and set it in the Harlem Renaissance ... When asked about how she decided to rework the play and set it in the Harlem Renaissance, White said it was a collaborative effort with English teacher Leslie Gibbs ... All the classes study the Harlem Renaissance in literature, so the two decided it would be an interesting treatment for their upcoming play. (Demopolis Times, AL)
SCSU exhibit focuses on first half of triumphant photographic display Oct 18, 2007
In the 1920s, Harlem, N.Y., was the center of black culture that became known as the "Harlem Renaissance," a time when black literature, art, music, dance and social commentary began to flourish in that particular section of the Big Apple ... The opening reception will also include a wine tasting, live music on the patio, swing and ragtime dancing and a Harlem Renaissance planetarium show. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Community center to be built honoring Augusta Savage Oct 9, 2007
She went on to have a piece commissioned for the 1939 World's Fair in New York City and became a teacher and political activist who helped young African-American artists during the Harlem Renaissance. Copyright MyClaysun. (Florida Times-Union)
Zane's World: Fisky Business Sep 13, 2007
Despite Waltons position that she would keep the collection intact and offer equal display time for Fisks Van Vechten Gallery (named for a Harlem Renaissance patron and a personal friend of OKeeffe and Stieglitz) and the new Crystal Bridges museum in Bentonville, she has been characterized as an opportunistic culture raider by both the mainstream art establishment and the OKeeffe Museum (although in the case of the museum, only because of its own claim to be the sole agent capable of... (Santa Fe Reporter)
Brownstone of poet Langston Hughes experiences own Harlem renaissance Jul 23, 2007
"Having that base - that house - was very important to the last 20 years of his life," said Arnold Rampersad, who wrote a two-volume biography of the Harlem Renaissance writer ... Miller, who said he first learned about the Harlem Renaissance and its most famous writer in the sixth grade in Connecticut, was inspired by the 1920s cultural movement to start writing. (The Clarion-Ledger)
ISOLATED MAN Jun 20, 2007
" Rampersad, 65, was born in Trinidad and in 1965 came to the United States, where he fell in love, as Ellison had done, with the masters of American literature -- Emerson, Whitman and Melville. He wrote literary criticism while building an academic career, but found that a biographer's work -- the long hours of library research, the thrill of discovering "little nuggets" among boxes of archival materials -- more satisfying. His wife, Marvina White, is a former lecturer of English at Stanford... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Meanwhile: I am, therefore I need to dance Jun 4, 2007
They date back to the Harlem Renaissance, which had created the unsettling prospect of interracial dancing. For decades, no one paid much attention to the laws until Mayor Rudolph Giuliani decided to get tough. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
The Impermanent Collection Apr 13, 2007
At the urging of a friend, the Harlem Renaissance writer Carl Van Vechten, she gave 97 works to Fisk University, the historically black school in Nashville. And she threw in a few of her own. (Time.com)
Electives required Apr 2, 2007
Newton North High School offers some of the more offbeat courses available locally, on subjects such as the Harlem Renaissance, modern poetry, ethics in the modern world, meteorology, and oceanography. Rita Sheinker teaches a course titled "Advanced Clothing and Fashion Design" at the school. (Boston Globe -- Local)
THE WEEK AHEAD Mar 25, 2007
TODAYBOOK SIGNING: 'Tuscan Light: Memories of Italy' by Mark Gordon Smith of Brunswick County, 3 p.m. at Rube McCray Memorial Library, 301 Flemington Drive, Lake Waccamaw (The Morning Star)
Book Your Place in the Big Read Mar 14, 2007
A contemporary of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurst's work provides an opportunity to explore the rich history of African-American culture in Harlem during the 1920s and '30s ... While the Harlem Renaissance was a time of great creativity, "We will look at what was going on in North Carolina in the African-American community," said Kathryn Beach, Museum of the Cape Fear research historian. (Up & Coming Magazine, NC)
O'Keeffe painting involved in modern fight Feb 16, 2007
Mr. Vechten, who was white, collaborated with, and was a patron to, black artists and writers during the Harlem Renaissance, and was a friend of Fisk's president at that time. The bequest included works by many modernist painters championed by Mr. Stieglitz at his famed "291" gallery in New York. (AZCentral -- Business)
More of this story Feb 16, 2007
There s a photograph of Langston Hughes and other members of the Harlem Renaissance, and there is an early 20th-century copy of the sheet music cover for Scott Joplin s Maple Leaf Rag. The musical tradition will be celebrated at Berklee College of Music on Sunday, Feb. 25 in The Great American Songbook: The Music of Stevie Wonder. (Brockton Enterprise, MA)
10 standout books to mark Black History Month Feb 6, 2007
"Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance." Edited by Cary D. Wintz. Sourcebooks. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Black History Month Gets Animated with Short Movies Honoring African American Heritage Jan 30, 2007
More than a dozen animation shorts honoring some of the most well known African Americans -- including Maya Angelou, Jackie Robinson and Oprah Winfrey -- and detailing the history of the African American experience from slavery to the Harlem Renaissance are being offered free of charge by BrainPOP () throughout the month of February as a salute to African American culture. ADVERTISEMENT. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Black Dance Rainbow Jan 28, 2007
Creating a dance about the Harlem Renaissance, Simpson saw what the West Coast had lacked: "a tight-knit group where younger artists can talk to the pioneers who paved the way," she says. But she thinks the festival has recaptured that spirit. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Mapping the road to the future Jan 25, 2007
Poor people are creative by themselves, but put a lot of them together and the result is brilliant - African-American artistic genius in the Harlem Renaissance, Jewish intellectual genius on New York's Lower East Side, Irish political genius in Boston's South End. The "Living on $US20 to $US50 a day" map shows where people are poor but not so miserably poor that they're sunk in inertia and despair. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Calif. firefighters damage costly mural Jan 24, 2007
The mural, by renowned Harlem Renaissance artist Sargent Johnson, was produced in 1949 and hung in the Richmond City Hall's council chamber. Two weeks ago the chamber was being readied for major renovation, and employees were tagging furniture and other belongings for removal. (Albany Times Union)
East Bay Movers Damage Million Dollar Mural Jan 24, 2007
The mural is by prestigious Harlem Renaissance artist Sargent Johnson. It was produced in 1949 and hung in the Richmond City Hall's council chamber. (NBC 11, CA)
They're living out a dream Jan 14, 2007
The seventh annual "I Have a Dream" weekend also featured a drum circle, educational films about King and a crafts room, where children created collages in the style of Romare Bearden, a celebrated African-American artist of the Harlem Renaissance era. The museum's activities are to continue today and tomorrow. (SunSpot.net)
