big ups

Big ups to Ayo Ngozi her work is part of an exhibit at DCAC opening Next Friday Nov. 10th

Twisted Roots
November 10 .. December 10
Curated by Tosha Grantham
Opening reception: Fri, Nov. 10, 7 .. 9pm
Curators talk: Sun, Dec. 10, 4 .. 5:30 pm

DCAC
2438 18th Street, NW, Washington, DC
Gallery hours: Wed. .. Sun. 2 -7 pm
www.dcartscenter.org

Featuring:
Sanford Biggers
S. Ross Browne
Caryl Burtner
Sonya Clark
Taliaferro Logan
Ayo Ngozi
Heide Trepanier

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Continuing with the ambitious multi-city project EXCHANGE, linking Baltimore, DC and Richmond for an exchange of artists and artwork, Washington Project for the Arts..Corcoran joins with District of Columbia Arts Center to present EXCHANGE: Richmond @ DC (Twisted Roots), curated by Tosha Grantham, Assistant Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

EXCHANGE: Richmond @ DC (Twisted Roots) engages the tangled web between history and the present through materials, perception, accumulation, and disintegration. The exhibition features painting, prints, photography, sculpture, video, and performance by seven artists..Sanford Biggers, S. Ross Browne, Caryl Burtner, Sonya Clark, Taliaferro Logan, Ayo Ngozi, and Heide Trepanier..with ties to Virginia while maintaining very active local, national, and international careers. It is a microcosm of Richmond..s vibrant, eclectic, and layered arts communities..academic, professional, and/or primarily self-taught.

Twisted Roots also embodies overlapping relationships among the artists and the three cities representing this little slice of East Coast in the uber-EXCHANGE exhibition project. Each is linked through blood, marriage, and/or exhibition history to DC, Baltimore, or both. Whether the unifying principle is concept, location, or experiences, together the artists and their work create an aesthetic conversation on consumption, spirituality, strength, and vulnerability through abstract and loaded references. They examine time and changing notions of self, beauty, and the relationship between real and imagined signifiers of struggle and the emergence of identity in contemporary life and art. Somewhere below what grows and what is cut away, the twisted roots remain just under the surface until they are addressed.

- Tosha Grantham, Assistant Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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ALSO


big up to Camille Mosley-Pasley and her show "Mama Love" Images and expressions celebrating the essence of maternal love opening at:
Touchstone

406 7th Street, NW, 2nd floor
Washington, DC 20004
www.TouchstoneGallery.com
Gallery Hours
Wednesday - Friday 11-5, Saturday - Sunday 12-5 and by appointment Click here to read more

Milloy on PG County

Courtland Milloy talking about wealth, quality of life and character in the the nation's most affluent African American settlement. Although i cannot agree with his comments on Steele, i think his critique of Prince George's County is fairly accurate. With regards to Steele, I think that what Milloy refers to as "flash and flair" is an effort to appeal to African American voters, I remember Ehrlich and Steele's campaign from before and Steele was not nearly as flashy as it has become. I think most (those that i spoke to) African Americans found that in his previous campaign his was a little subdued and lacked the charisma that they were used to in a politician's "rap" and presentation. I think Steele is an intelligent man and is trying to adjust his campaign to appeal to a wider range of people.
Furthermore, I am not totally sure how I feel about Cardin not making comment on his boy Hoyer's "slavishly" comments; that is a little troubling too, Cardin too is an intelligent man he should be mindful the potential consequences of those type of comments(on second thought maybe he was, being that there has been no African American Democrats jumping on him for the remark. Perhaps he knew that to some Steele is considered a house negro so using such a word to describe him and his actions would bring no backlash amongst African American Democrats).
Milloy's article here

Don't wait until February to celebrate Black History Month!

Don't wait until February to celebrate Black History Month!

If you live in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area or may just be visiting, you are invited to attend a Wreath Laying Ceremony to kick-off the introduction of the 2007 Black History Theme on November 2, 2006.

10:00 a.m., at the Historic Lincoln Memorial Cemetery 4001 Suitland Road, Suitland, MD.
This is a ASALH Program.

Wreaths will be layed at the following gravesites:

DR. CARTER G. WOODSON -Father of Black History
VAN MCCOY- composer, producer
DR. CHARLES DREW- surgeon and scientist

PLEASE SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH ALL YOUR COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS AND JOIN US TO CELEBRATE, AFRICANS IN THE AMERICAS.

THE 2007 BLACK HISTORY THEME IS-- FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM: AFRICANS IN THE AMERICAS.