Another #WriteOnWednesday is upon us! 🙌🏿
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Weekly Wednesday #BlackWritersGroupMeeting is tomorrow at 5pm (my time). #BlackWriters #SUPPORTINGBlackWriters!
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Art is... catharsis.
Weekly BLACK WRITERS GROUP meeting this (&every) Wednesday.
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Calling all interested junior scholars and grad students! Abstracts due March 25: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/03/... #blackartsmovement #blacksky #amiribaraka #baraka #blackarts
American artist Jeff Donaldson’s title invokes Shango, a ruler of the Oyo empire and a major Yoruba spiritual figure associated with thunder, lightning, power, and justice. The three strong women represent his wives: Oshun, Oba, and Oya who fought beside him. Donaldson reimagines them in the language of Black pride and liberation in 1969. They are not distant mythic figures, but modern, self-possessed women whose beauty, dignity, and readiness suggest spiritual authority as well as political power. They connect Yoruba memory to Black self-determination during the Black Arts Movement, making the painting a vision of women as protectors, cultural anchors, and agents of resistance. The three Black women stand close together, like a shared monument. Their skin is modeled in deep browns, amber, copper, and gold, and the watercolor surface flickers with warm oranges, reds, and yellows, making the whole composition feel radiant and heat-filled. All three wear natural Afro hairstyles that expand their silhouettes with pride and presence. The woman at left turns her face outward in profile, wearing a pink-orange dress, an ankh pendant, and a belt of bullets slung low across her hips. A long firearm hangs vertically beside her shoulder. The central figure wears white, a necklace of large beads, and a cross pendant. The woman in profile at right, in a yellow dress with patterned trim, holds an open fan. Donaldson presents them not as passive muses but as dignified, alert, and formidable women. Painted just after Donaldson helped found AfriCOBRA in Chicago, the work reflects his commitment to a proudly Black, community-centered aesthetic that celebrated beauty, power, and African diasporic connection. Rather than placing women at the margins of revolution, he centers them as intellectual, spiritual, and political equals. The glowing palette intensifies the sense that these women feel iconic and almost sanctified like a vision of Black resilience and sovereignty.
“Wives of Shango” by Jeff Donaldson (American) - Watercolor with mixed media on paper / 1969 - Brooklyn Museum (New York) #WomenInArt #1960sArt #artText #art #JeffDonaldson #Donaldson #Yoruba #BrooklynMuseum #BlackArtsMovement #BlueskArt #BlackArtist #BlackArt #AfricanAmericanArtist #AfriCOBRA
Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-85, is now open at the Getty Center!
Hear directly from the trailblazing artists who helped shape a new vision of Black life and liberation. 📸
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Posting for those who asked. The Second Annual #MaudSulter lecture I gave at Glasgow School of Arts organised by @womenslibrary.bsky.social #streetlevelphotography #blackwomenartists #blackartsmovement #womenartists www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYOP... (i come in at around 10mins)
Referred to as "aesthetic and spiritual sister of Black Power" by writer Larry Neal, the Black Arts Movement (BAM) paved the way for contemporary Black expressive culture!
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American Pacheco: The Legend of Luis Valdez premiered at Sundance, featuring images by 2 photographers from the Bradley Center. The Getty Museum will open "Photography and the Black Arts Movement 1955–1985," w/ 5 Center photographers #LuisValdez #blackartsmovement
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Excerpt from the essay.
"Clifton remembers that to be home is to be within a polyvocal continent whose variety feels almost incomprehensible in comparison to this country’s circumscribed notions of #Blackness." #BlackArtsMovement #BlackFeminism #BlackStudies #CliftonHouse
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#BlackWritersGroup meeting today, Wednesday, in less than 5 hours.
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Quote, questions, & suggestions to help stimulate writing.
Notice of weekly Black Writers Group meeting.
Weekly #blackwritersgroup MEETING is ~1hr from now. These #writingprompts r options during our #15 min #writingsprint & might stimulate U! EnJOY!
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Beautiful artwork
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Wow! What a wonderful place
A lot of discussion about recordings, music formats, and changes in audience as a result of the shift to LPs: jazz artists came under pressure to appeal to middle-class white audiences. An issue that people in the #blackartsmovement were all to aware of...
Graphic with drawing of film camera and title of TIE blog post, "'Picturing the Self': Black Photography Illuminates at the National Gallery of Art"
Now on #TIEBlog
TIE contributor Ashleigh Coren walks through a recent visit to the National Gallery of Art's "Photography and the Black Arts Movement: 1955–1985" exhibition one day before the museum closed due to the ongoing government shutdown: ow.ly/tEUl50XiBBc #BlackArtsMovement
🌍 Loïs Mailou Jones’ Dakar lecture offers a powerful perspective on Black art, migration, and influence. A moment where history and movement intersect.
Read for free 👉https://ow.ly/3J5n50X4qXg
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Inspired by the. meeting of two Black literary giants-- Click the link to read the Picture This Post Theater Section preview--
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If you're not listening to this livestream, you're missing out.
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Grey #BlackWritersGroup meeting flyer. Top third of the page is a black box. 2 thirds of the box have the words (with space top and bottom) on two lines "weekly" & "meeting" in red letters. Next to it in green letters taking up about one 3rd of the box is the following on 11 lines "You wanna know"+ "my secret now," + "for keeping" + "anybody in" + "my life?" + "You" + "have to treat me" + "as well as" + "I treat me." + "No exceptions." + "~ Christina C. Jones". In big black letter under the black box, on 2 lines "Wednesday" + "5pm" and the words/logo of the "Black Writers Group".
SPEAK YO SPEECH! 🗣️ weekly #BlackWritersGroup meeting Wednesday at 5pm. Direct message me for info. ✊🏾 Right on? 👊🏿 Write on! ✍🏿♥️🖤💚✍🏾✍🏿✍🏽✍🏿...
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“[This] exhibition catalogue stands as an archive against erasure, spotlighting artists whose contributions have gone overlooked for far too long.”
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Cover for the book Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez, featuring a photo of a young Cortez in profile.
WED, OCT 8 @ 8:30 PM EST: “A Celebration of Firespitter: The Collected Poems of Jayne Cortez” in person for $10 at St. Mark's Church, 131 E 10th St and live-streaming for free on The Poetry Project’s YouTube channel. www.squadup.com/events/a-cel... #poetry #BlackWomen #BlackArtsMovement #NYC
Flyer with a red to grey gradient background. Center in big green letters are the words "weekly meeting" with the small black words "5pm * Wed" laid over them. In the top left corner is the "BLACK WRITERS GROUP" logo that has those words encircling a grey fist holding a red, black and green pencil. On the left side of the letter "w" in the word "weekly" is "??? -- +1.601.329.9449, WhatsApp" for additional questions. On the bottom right in small red letters is the following: "...I’m most grateful for time, which doesn’t always heal all wounds, but teaches us how to be happy again even with our scars. - Before I Let Go Kennedy Ryan"
Tamarrah! 🤣🤣🤣 Tomorrow, Wednesday, 5pm (my time)...
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What is a political artist? Our new release POST ATLANTIC profiles #DeweyCrumpler, a crucial figure in the #BlackArtsMovement. Filmmakers Alan Snitow & Deborah Kaufman tell Crumpler’s story and follow him in his studio, at home, & around the Bay Area. Order now: www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/post...
A group of 7 illustrated people shown writing around a table. The logo* of the 'Black Writers Group' is in the center of the flyer with the big white words "5pm, Wednesday" bottom center on a brown background + the words "Message +1.601.329.9449 for more information." in small white letters above the heads of the writers. *The Black Writers Group logo (laid over a brown circle) is the words “Black” and “Writers Group” in black letters encircling a black, white, and grey fist holding a red, black, and green pencil. The fist is on top of a small green circle, surrounded by a larger black circle which is surrounded by an even larger black circle.
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