2.29.2020 Last day of February and I’ve got creative with this month’s Reflection and found these. Enjoy the rest of your weekend, be blessed. I hope you enjoyed these gems! Image source: Unknown Continue reading Celebrating Black: Reflections through Photography
2.12.2020 Black History Month continues…I’ve been putting together things on the fly and I’ve found lots of cool things that African-American artists have been doing in the last few years. I hope you like it. Again, I … Continue reading Celebrating Black through Art…
2.10.2020 Afternoon…As you know, February is Black History Month and I’m celebrating in my own way. Through music. Take a look and listen to these artists… Old, but gold… I … Continue reading Celebrating Black Through Music…
2.26.19 I CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY EVERYDAY Enjoy the rest of your day, be blessed! Featured image: Aus Matthews Continue reading Reflections: Celebrate Your Roots
2.25.19 I wanted to turn Creative Close-Up into something different for February. It’s the last week of February and yes it’s still Black History Month. The late Gordon Parks is our focus for Black History Feature. Photographer, musician, writer, and film director, he was well known for documentary photojournalism. A few facts on Parks: Was the first African American to produce and direct major motion pictures—developing films relating the experience of slaves and struggling black Americans, and creating the “blaxploitation” genre. Worked on a federal government project which focused on poor Americans during the 1940s, for his photographic essays for … Continue reading Black History Feature: Gordon Parks
2.13.19 We are continuing Black History Month with Art Feature and Rashid Johnson will be our first art feature for the month of February. Here are a few facts about Johnson. Johnson produces conceptional post-blacks art Studied at Columbia College Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago His work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC; the Institute of Contemporary Photography, New York; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Johnson is also a … Continue reading Art Feature: Rashid Johnson
2.5.19 We celebrate Black History Month through music and today I wanted to post these gems… Enjoy your Tuesday, be blessed. Featured image: http://www.jer-cin.org.il Continue reading Black History Month Features Lena, Sarah, Ella, & Nina
1.31.19 Vol. 7 / #2 February is here and do we have a lot of things get out and about! As you already know this month is Black History Month and I have much creative stuff that I can’t wait to share… Music releases from Belrut, Ariana Grande, Bob Mould, Xiu Xiu, and Avril Lavigne. Nine festivals, just nine getting ready like Gem & Jam 2019, The Rock Boat 2019, 70,000 Tons of Metal 2019, and others. I will post the last reminder for those attending the AWP (Association of Writing & Writing Programs) Conference Bookfair 2019, which will be … Continue reading Editor’s Note / February 2019
