Mar 3, 2025 | Arts + Culture
Meet the 35 artists using their creative talents to celebrate 30 years of fashion in a new exhibit at the Central Library. The annual “Meet the Artists” exhibit is a cultural event that stands as one of the city’s longest-running showcases of local...
Feb 24, 2025 | Arts + Culture, History
Founded by visual artist and community leader Shonna McDaniels, the Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum is a cultural jewel housed in Sacramento’s Florin Square, a historic hub and marketplace designed around Pan-Africanism. Guided by the Ghanaian principle...
Feb 17, 2025 | Arts + Culture, History
The Center of Black Excellence and Culture completed their building’s structural framework on Wednesday. The event kicked off with attendees signing a beam in white, red, green and yellow markers. The center’s colors are the same as February’s annually observed Black...
Feb 10, 2025 | Arts + Culture, History
Art aficionados still have time to view a nationally touring exhibition featuring 68 works connected to the late David C. Driskell, renowned for his work establishing African-American art as a distinct field of study. The Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum...
Jan 18, 2025 | Arts + Culture, History, Music
On Feb. 28, around 3,000 students will attend the “Classically Black: Great Music of African-American Composers” at the Broome County Forum Theatre. The art museum and Philharmonic Orchestra are partnering to provide lesson plans based on art and music to teachers of...
Jan 18, 2025 | Arts + Culture, History
When Michiko Quinones first saw the framed, oval-shaped 1864 watercolor of a tiny Black man peacefully fishing near a mill, she cried. It wasn’t the serenity of the running water or easy sway of the branches that put Quinones in her feelings. Nor, was it the image of...
