GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Artist AbdoulayeConde has won the ArtPrize 2023 public vote grand prize for ‘Raining Wisdom,’ a massive, bright and colorful mural depicting elephants in the African wilderness that captured the attention and imagination of festival attendees ...Grand Rapids African American Arts and Music Artist Award.
The main event in December will feature iconic musical performances, including three-time Grammy nominees Rocky Dawuni and Morgan Heritage, as well as other renowned African artists who will showcase the continent’s musical richness.
Similarly, many protest songs were written and performed by one artist and then passed down to others in the folk tradition, hitting the mainstream somewhere along the way ... - Artist ... - Artist ... - Artist ... - Artist ... - Artist ... Popular artists like Pete Seeger and Lead Belly would later record their own versions ... - Artist ... - Artist ... - Artist ... - Artist ... - Artist.
Tallahassee's Ramin Yazdanpanah is a self-proclaimed musical sponge ... 20 ... Yet, in spite of this displacement, Yazdanpanah found familiarity in the music of his new city ... Language, Learning & Teaching ... During the AfricanDiaspora, many music and artistic practices were appropriated by colonizers and eventually infused with modern-day culture ... What ... When.
Beyond its specific historical significance, the drum’s name evokes broader ideas of spirituality, healing, and transcendence in African cosmologies ... The nation’s diverse cultural heritage belongs to all SouthAfricans, and it is the duty of archivists, curators and artists to ensure these stories are told in ways that empower rather than silence.
Featuring lithographs by Santa Fe artist Rodney Carswell; open by appointment only; 1708 15th St., Boulder; 15thstreetgalleryboulder.com ... Art from local, African and Caribbean artists; noon-5 p.m ... 11; Open Studio Tour exhibit features work from local artists who will be participating in October’s Open Studio Tour, up through Oct.
The festival will showcase an exciting host of national and international guest companies and artists, featuring Jazzart’s young, energetic and ambitious students and professional company of dancers, along with specially invited guests from around the country.
Night in the Garden of Love – OpenNovember 10, 2023 to May 5, 2024, contemporary artist Shezad Dawood’s multisensory exhibition, inspired by and featuring African-American Muslim musician Yusef Lateef, is a dynamic conversation between the artists’ practices and philosophical approaches.
<p>People have blamed the shocking cancellation of Trevor Noah’s much-anticipated shows in Bengaluru on the ineptitude of the venue in hosting artistes of the SouthAfrican comedian’s calibre ...Peters’ show went off without any issues ... Large spaces don’t work, because a good act should make you feel like the artiste is talking to you, she says.
The exhibition features nearly 50 drawings, prints and paintings of Charles White — widely recognized as one of the most important and influential AfricanAmerican artists of the twentieth century — which provide lessons in tolerance and compassion that resonate today.
LOS ANGELES — Western (i.e., Caucasian) artists have a seemingly irrepressible urge to fetishize, generalize, and stereotype all other cultures and people—Indigenous peoples, Asians, Latinos/as, Africans—and even some now regarded as “white” but who were once “othered” such as Italians, Irish and Jews.