Jun 10, 2024 | Art, Arts Education, Entertainment
Apple is hosting 50 students from 19 historically Black colleges and universities for an immersive two-week experience as part of the Propel Center’s arts and entertainment industry accelerator. Apple and Southern Company are the founding partners of Propel...
Oct 16, 2023 | Arts Education, Culture, Events
The Black Arts Matter Festival will be returning to Madison next month and along with it, a new Young, Gifted, & Black Youth Talent Competition, which will be held at MYArts on 1055 E. Mifflin St. on Nov. 12 from 2-4 p.m. The Black Arts Matter Festival...
Oct 17, 2022 | Art, Arts Education, Culture
The Black community in Fort Collins makes up 1.5% of the city’s population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. For a college town that loves to celebrate its diversity, community leaders such as Jamal Skinner, founder and executive director of the...
Aug 7, 2022 | Art, Arts Education, Events
To be a Black, LGBTQ artist in 21st century America must be many things: complicated, textured, evolving, challenging, rich. For the summer exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts, jaamil olawale kosoko, Wexner artist residency award recipient, enlisted...
May 31, 2022 | Art, Arts Education, Culture
The process of creating art, much like the Black experience in America, relies on an innate ability to see beyond the limits of circumstance and a belief that something beautiful will come through faith and commitment. When art and book collectors Bernard and Shirley...
Apr 4, 2022 | Arts Education, Science, STEM, Women
The under-representation of people of color in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) has become a crisis of significant proportion. For women of color, the statistics are even more troubling. While the impact materializes in the workplace, it begins...
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