by lindaoppenheim | Sep 10, 2023
Lecture by environmentalist, activist, and award-winning artist Sólana Rowe (SZA), followed by a roundtable with a group of acclaimed scholars: political scientist Megan Francis (University of Washington), historian Elizabeth Hinton (Yale University), and attorney...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 19, 2022
Join the Arts Council of Princeton for a discussion on oral history and its significance to local race, art, and history. This event will feature panelists Shirley Satterfield, founder of the Witherspoon-Jackson Cultural and Historical Society, Princeton; Lawrence...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 22, 2020 | Article, Website
Following on its 1619 project, the New York Times presents brief commentaries from “prominent black artists on the work that inspires them most. . . .Kerry Washington on Beyoncé, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kendrick Lamar, Oprah Winfrey on Toni Morrison, Issa Rae on...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 25, 2019 | Events, Uncategorized
June 12, 2019, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey This workshop will demonstrate how the arts can be used to engage our communities and audiences in exploring African American history and experience. Following a presentation about how...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 13, 2019 | Events
Rutgers University-Newark graduate student, Noelle Lorraine Williams, designed a sculpture to commemorate Frederick Douglass’s visit to Newark on April 17, 1849 to deliver an address at the former Plane Street Colored Church as a fundraiser for his North Star...
