The new book serves as a celebration of women of color in the art industry, and Harris Norton’s long-standing influence in shaping the careers of so many emerging artists and curators.
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California African American Museum Appoints Cameron Shaw as Executive Director
By Sentinel News Service
Cameron Shaw (Courtesy photo)
The California African American Museum (CAAM) announced that Cameron Shaw has been appointed executive director. She has served the Museum as deputy director and chief curator since September 2019.
“We are delighted that Cameron Shaw has agreed to lead the Museum into the future, continuing CAAM’s remarkable trajectory. She has admirably navigated CAAM’s closure due to COVID-19, all the while strategizing and fundraising for several exciting initiatives to come once Los Angeles museums are allowed to reopen,” said Board President Todd Hawkins. Shaw’s appointment follows the retirement of George O. Davis, the executive director since 2015.
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Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility is proving to be a profoundly influential as well as innovative book. Its author Ashon T. Crawley – academic and artist – features in two exhibitions (one current, one upcoming) which explore themes taken from the book.
A plenitude and plurality is found in these artworks composed of worship, lament and joy – JE
Enunciated Life at California African American Museum takes as its starting point Crawley’s idea that ‘black pneuma’, a communal choreography of inhalation and exhalation experienced within Black Pentecostalism has the power ‘to enunciate life, life that is exorbitant, capacious, and fundamentally social, though it is also life that is structured through and engulfed by brutal violence.’ [1] Otherwise/Revival at Bridge Projects from April utilizes Crawley’s suggestion that the elements of the Black Pentecostal Church the Hammond organ, emphatic breath, shouting, and glossolalia create space for