WEBISODE VIDEO: SOUL OF BROOKLYN’S “RIP THE RUNWAY” FASHION SHOW Dope Files was in the building for Soul of Brooklyn’s Rip The Runway show in Fort Greene yesterday evening, founded by Laurie Cumbo. It was a celebration of African fashion designers in order expose them … Read More →
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Changing “The Master Plan”: Hybridity in Black Art and Design
Changing “The Master Plan”: Hybridity in Black Art and Design Parsons School of Design at The New School hosted its first international conference on the state of Black culture in art and design education this past weekend. The lens of day two of the conference … Read More →
Beauty, Power, and Liminality
A conversation on Black Beauty movements from the Lecture Series Beauty and the Black Body To be misrepresented, one’s image is falsified, distorted, warped, loaded, and perverted. How does that image get corrected, when is one represented? On Saturday February 19, Rutgers University Newark addressed … Read More →
Emerging Curatorial Models: MoCADA’s Curatorial Fellows Attend The Now Museum Conference
From Thursday, March 10 to Sunday, March 13, Independent Curators International, the New Museum, and the Ph.D. Program in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center collaborated to present an international conference, The Now Museum: Contemporary Art, Curating Histories, Alternative Models. The conference drew a … Read More →
CAA Conference
On Friday, February 11th, we had our first experience in the field as Curatorial Fellows at MoCADA. We attended the 99th annual College Art Association (CAA) Conference at the Hilton New York in Midtown, Manhattan (http://conference.collegeart.org/2011/). The atmosphere was lively, with artists and scholars bustling … Read More →
Live
UN Africa Day and the International Year for People of African Descent 2011 United Nations Headquarters in New York 31 May 2011 from 2 pm to 5 pm Conference Room 2 North Lawn Building “FORGING CLOSER LINKS BETWEEN AFRICA AND THE DIASPORA” The UN hosted Africa … Read More →
MoCADA at Verge Art Fair
MoCADA and The Curatorial Fellows Take Verge Art Brooklyn by Storm From March 3 to March 6, the Curatorial Fellows successfully curated their first space at the Verge Art Brooklyn Fair. The three day event drew local, national, and international artists and galleries to Dumbo. … Read More →
EDITORIAL
Perspectives on Philadelphia: Art, Culture and Curatorial Practice On Friday, May 6 MoCADA’s Curatorial Fellows embarked on a Curatorial Intensive to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MoCADA’s Director of Exhibitions, Kalia Brooks and Director of Education, Ruby Amanze, both of whom hail from the city of brotherly love, … Read More →