Published May 25, 2021 at 4:10 PM CDT Listen • 14:40 Quincy Art Center The Allegories of Time painting by Stanwyck E. Cromwell, a Guyanese-born, second-generation visual artist featured in The Other Room.
For 32 years, St. Louis-based artist Robert Powell has collected and educated art lovers on the vast contributions of African Americans in fine visual arts. Powell is the founder of Portfolio Gallery & Education Center, which he launched in 1989 to raise awareness about how Black visual artists are largely overlooked in the industry.
His latest curated exhibit at the Quincy Art Center continues that tradition.
On view through July 23, “The Other Room” showcases six artists Powell believes deserve high recognition. As an example of how rarely Black artists are given the spotlight, his curator’s statement asks visitors to name five African American visual artists as well known as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Claude Monet.
Self-portraits sought for Hill-Stead, Free Center exhibit celebrating Black art and identity Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant
The Free Center in Hartford and Middletown and the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington are working together to present an exhibit of self-portraits by Black artists during events showcasing and celebrating Black art and identity.
The submission deadline is May 10 for the self-portraits, which can be in any form: painting, drawing, mixed media, photography, sculpture, video, poetry, performing arts.
Artworks will be split up into three exhibits, one for each venue. Hill-Stead will show artworks on June 5, to begin a month of Juneteenth events. On that day, ShopBlackCT will have a pop-up market, Amistad Center for Arts & Culture will do takeaway crafts, Kamora’s Cultural Corner will present “Black Art Heals” performances, Jocelyn Pleasant and her band will perform, quilter Ed Johnetta Miller will show her work and printmaker Kiayani Douglas w
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A Massachusetts artist is paying tribute to health care workers through his painting, part of a movement to honor the people risking their lives to save people with COVID-19 that started overseas. “I have been sitting at home during this shutdown and I saw what’s going on and I thought, this is a great way to give back to. coronavirus May 14, 2020
A Portsmouth-based company donated several Walk-Up Docs, a booth that enhances safety while administering a coronavirus tests, to low-income areas. Trigger House, a New Hampshire marketing agency, switched gears trying to help in the fight against coronavirus and started making the Walk-Up Doc, which is designed so that the medical workers administering coronavirus tests don’t have to continuously change.
Nationally renowned art quilter Ed Johnetta Miller of Hartford has created a quilt to celebrate First Night Hartford, the annual downtown New Year’s Eve party that has gone virtual this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.