Feb 8, 2021 | Art, Arts Education, Detroit
Last year, at the start of Black History Month, College of Arts and Letters alumna Asmaa Walton began posting covers of art monographs, exhibition catalogues and art biographies of African American visual artists to Instagram. An art education graduate, Walton was in...
Oct 26, 2020 | Arts Education, Higher Education
Each week this fall, we’ll introduce new Bates professors who have tenure-track positions on the faculty. This year’s nine tenure appointments are in the disciplines of art and visual culture, classical and medieval studies, economics, English, environmental studies,...
Oct 5, 2020 | Art, Arts Education
Omaha Performing Arts is launching an initiative that will highlight artists in diverse cultures and their work in social justice. Voices Amplified will elevate artists in live music, dance and spoken word. It will include panel discussions by local and national...
Sep 28, 2020 | Art, Arts Education, Investment
The Heinz Endowments will share in $35 million that the Ford Foundation is distributing to 10 regional foundations nationwide to help sustain Black, Latino, Asian and other minority arts and cultural groups that have seen their finances decimated by the COVID-19...
Sep 14, 2020 | Art, Arts Education
To the late songstress and civil rights activist Nina Simone, the role of an artist was quite clear: “An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times,” she once told an interviewer. Although filmed decades ago, Simone’s words feel especially...
Aug 31, 2020 | Arts Education
Look closely at this three-dimensional scene, featuring a pair of exuberant dancers. “You’ve been enslaved for 250 years, and now you’re free, and this is jubilation and joy,” said professor Jontyle Robinson. The director of the Legacy Museum...
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