Here's the OFFICIAL BlackArtConnect.com logo. I wanted to create something that says it all. ...
Posted Wednesday, September 10th 2008 at 4:32PM
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At the Artists Collective in Hartford, there’s no graffiti on the walls. No one loiters on the corners of the collective’s block on Albany Avenue. When cofounder and executive director Dollie McLean walks down the street, young men turn their hat ...
Posted Thursday, August 28th 2008 at 1:50PM
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Looping strips of palmetto fronds through coiled sweetgrass is slow poison.
Squinting in concentration ruins the eyes, forcing a nail bone through the grass wrecks the hands and bending over the creations cripples the back. But Elijah Dumas of Mo ...
Posted Thursday, August 28th 2008 at 1:39PM
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COM J. VELLOSO, REIS, RICH MEDINA, JULIE DEXTER, MAUSIKI SCALES, SALAH ANANSE E RICH MEDINA
Agradecemos o show Reis que com muitos aplausos abriu o Summer Music Fest - 3ª Edição na Bahia. Aos mais de 30 estrangeiros entre produtores, artistas e ...
Posted Thursday, August 28th 2008 at 11:04AM
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Thanks Rich Medina, was a great event! WE LOVED IT, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Nesta quarta, 20 de agosto, às 22 horas, a Boomerangue será palco do Summer Music Fest, com a música eletrônica de Reis, a MPB-Pop de J. Velloso e Os Cavaleiros de Jorge ...
Posted Wednesday, August 27th 2008 at 10:37PM
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Nova sensação na cena musical norte-americana, a cantora inglesa Julie Dexter, filha de jamaicanos e autora de “Ketch a vibe”, escolhida pelo candidato democrata Barack Obama como um dos jingles de sua campanha à Presidência dos EUA, aportou ...
Posted Wednesday, August 27th 2008 at 10:33PM
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Dear Salvador Bahia Brazil,
Thank you for helping us host our Diga Brazil/Leisure Class Summer Music Festival 2008. The people of Salvador were so very receptive to the foreign tourist and artist who traveling from the USA and Europe to join Bahi ...
Posted Wednesday, August 27th 2008 at 10:29PM
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Isaac Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician whose relentless "Theme From Shaft" won Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office said. He was 65.
The pioneering singer, songwriter and composer, who alon ...
Posted Tuesday, August 12th 2008 at 11:50AM
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TRIBUTES have been paid to an "inspirational" and "dedicated true artist".
Lecturer Rob Fuller's sudden death at the age of just 56 at the end of May left a huge gap at Peterborough Regional College, where he taught visual arts with distinction fo ...
Posted Tuesday, August 12th 2008 at 11:35AM
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There's an old adage, "one person's trash is another person's treasure." Certainly makes sense in these recycling-conscious times. But there is another aspect to the idea, too: Even the most humble throwaways can, in the right hands, become something ...
Posted Tuesday, August 12th 2008 at 11:14AM
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For the past few weeks, Beverley Sorenson's mind has been on Maria Menchaca, the 7-year-old Salt Lake City girl killed in a shootout allegedly among teenage gangsters.
Sorenson, an arts philanthropist who unveiled a blockbuster gift to the Univ ...
Posted Tuesday, August 12th 2008 at 11:01AM
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The Fashion Media Group, will host
The 1st Annual Atlanta Fashion Week 2008
The Fashion Media Group will host the 1st Annual “Atlanta Fashion Week 2008’ held in Douglasville, GA. This event will take place the weekend of September 18-21, 2008, ...
Posted Friday, August 8th 2008 at 8:44AM
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The relatively low percentage of Black students in jazz studies programs remains a topic of interest as scholars want to ensure that the musical culture of an earlier generation of African-Americans lives on.
WHEN 25-YEAR-OLD ASHLIN Parker applied ...
Posted Wednesday, August 6th 2008 at 8:48PM
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Newburgh has entered the final stage of its Rites of Passage with the rebirth of its African-American Day Parade and Multi-cultural Festival
The 1950’s "All American City" is having an African-American Day Parade and Multicultural Festival for the ...
Posted Wednesday, August 6th 2008 at 8:41PM
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