By Leah Silvieus ’21 M.A.R. It’s not unusual for scholars to be asked why they spend years of their lives devoted to a certain subject area. However, Adrián Emmanuel Hernández-Acosta, recently appointed Assistant Professor of Religion and Literature in the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School, seems to get this question more than most.
[Many thanks to Mary Ann Gosser Esquilín for bringing this item to our attention.] Here is a call for papers for “EL MONTE: Narratives, Aesthetics, and Afrodiasporic Spirituality in the Contemporary Caribbean,” which takes place at Rutgers University from November 9 to 10, 2023. The deadline for submission of abstracts in English, Spanish, or Portuguese is August…
“A lot of times, Black females, they go unrecognized on many skills in different industries,” said the Brampton portrait photographer, whose work is being featured in the celebration of Black History Month at the Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA).
“To be part of that history and to be a part of doing the work I am, archiving these women, it’s important for Black female creatives to be image-makers and tell their own story.”
Reid helps highlight some of those stories with her work in
When the Night Stirred at Sea: Contemporary Caribbean Art.
The virtual exhibition, which is on at PAMA until February 21, brings together works by several English Caribbean artists working at home (Trinidad and Jamaica) and in the Diaspora (Canada, USA and the UK) and explores a variety of urgent and common themes of identity, colonization, as well as social activism and justice that connect all of us.javascript:” html head https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt
Janice Reid knows the importance of Black women telling their own story.
“A lot of times, Black females, they go unrecognized on many skills in different industries,” said the Brampton portrait photographer, whose work is being featured in the celebration of Black History Month at the Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA).
“To be part of that history and to be a part of doing the work I am, archiving these women, it’s important for Black female creatives to be image-makers and tell their own story.”
Reid helps highlight some of those stories with her work in
When the Night Stirred at Sea: Contemporary Caribbean Art.