Vision & Sound: An African American Arts Event

by | Jan 15, 2025 | Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Learning, Live Performance

 

10th Anniversary  *  February 7 – 28, 2025

Vision & Sound creates an educational experience and environment that broadens the understanding and appreciation of African American visual and performing arts for multigenerational and multicultural audiences. We strive to build supportive relationships to encourage cultural equity throughout Arizona and beyond – recognizing that professional American artists of African descent are too often overlooked.

Opening Reception & Celebrate Sedona
Friday, February 7, 2025, 4-6 pm

In Sedona Arts Center’s Special Exhibitions Gallery & Upper Parking Lot
15 Art Barn Road, Sedona, Arizona 86336
Free event parking is located behind Sedona Arts Center’s Art Barn.

Featured Artists:

Anjola Ayodele

Patricia Bohannon

Dorrell Bradford

Antoinette Cauley

Jacqueline Chanda

Michael Cunningham

Lizz Denneau

Amber Doe

Debra Edgerton

Chas Frisco

Isse Maloi

Bob Martin

Philip Gabriel Steverson

George Welch

Shoreigh Williams

~Schedule of Events and Exhibitions~

Presented by Sedona Arts Center in partnership with the ASU Center for the Study of Race & Democracy

Celebrate Black History Month and enjoy artist demonstrations, food, wine, beer and music by the Tommy Dukes Band.
Friday, February 7-28, 2025

15 Art Barn Road, Sedona, Arizona 86336
The exhibition is on view in the Special Exhibitions Gallery.
Free event parking is located behind Sedona Arts Center’s Art Barn.
Featuring: Patricia Bohannon, Dorrell Bradford, Antoinette Cauley, Jacqueline Chanda, Michael Cunningham, Amber Doe, Lizz Denneau, Debra Edgerton, Chas Frisco, Isse Maloi, Bob Martin, Philip Gabriel Steverson, George Welch, and Shoreigh Williams

 

Vision & Sound Symposium
Saturday, February 8, 2025, 8:30 am-5 pm

Sedona Arts Center, 15 Art Barn Road, Sedona, Arizona 86336

Featuring keynote speaker and renowned dancer, choreographer and scholar LaTasha Barnes
as well as panel discussions, performances, receptions and reflections.
Free event parking is located behind Sedona Arts Center’s Art Barn.

Global Sounds Concert
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 7-8:30 pm

Free tickets

Peoria Center for the Performing Arts, 10580 N 83rd Dr, Peoria, Arizona 85345
Enjoy a special concert by Gabriel Bey and Friends featuring Jazz, R&B and Funk.

Goodyear Jazz in the Park
Saturday, February 15, 2025, 5-8 pm 

Goodyear Civic Center, 1900 N. Civic Square, Goodyear, Arizona 85395
Celebrate Black History month and enjoy an evening of jazz.

Goodyear Teen Workshop
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 3-5 pm

Fabric Tales – A workshop driven towards spontaneous creativity and instinctive imagination utilizing textiles.
During this workshop, participants will brainstorm, visualize, then create collage style artworks depicting characters and scenes from their imaginations with an array of fabrics provided by the artist. From scenic views of the mountains to abstract color compositions, each piece will be unique to the artist’s hand.
Participants will have the opportunity to work with pre-cut materials to create their own character, or roam freely by rummaging through curated fabrics to bring their imagined pieces to life. Click here to sign up.

Goodyear Recreation Campus, 420 S Estrella Parkway, Goodyear, Arizona 85338
(ages 12-17) with Philip Gabriel Steverson

Artist Demo with Jacqueline Chanda
Thursday, February 20, 2025, 4-6 pm 

Tolleson Public Library Gallery, 9055 W. Van Buren Street, Tolleson, Arizona  85353
Visit us at the Tolleson Public Library at 3 pm on Thursday, February 20 for catered snacks and a demo from featured Vision and Sound exhibit artist Jacqueline Chanda.

Peoria Arts & Cultural Festival
Saturday, March 1, 2024, 9 am-3 pm

Old Town Peoria (Peoria/Grand Avenues)
Enjoy artist demonstrations and workshops by select artists

Exhibitions in Sedona, Goodyear, Peoria & Tolleson

Peoria Main Library
Showing through March 28, 2025

8463 W. Monroe Street, Peoria, Arizona 85345
Featuring: Anjola Ayodele, Jacqueline Chanda, Isse Maloi, Bob Martin, Philip Gabriel Steverson, and Shoreigh Williams

Sunrise Mountain Library
Showing through March 28, 2025

21109 N 98th Ave, Peoria, Arizona 85382
Featuring: Michael Cunningham, Jacqueline Chanda, and Dorrell Bradford

Tolleson Public Library
Showing through March 29, 2025

9055 W. Van Buren Street, Tolleson, Arizona  85353
Featuring: Anjola Ayodele, Patricia Bohannon, Dorrell Bradford, Michael Cunningham, Jacqueline Chanda,
Lizz Denneau, Isse Maloi, Bob Martin, Philip Gabriel Steverson, and Shoreigh Williams

Georgia T. Lord Library
January 30-March 30, 2025

Featuring: Dorrell Bradford, Jacqueline Chanda, Isse Maloi, Bob Martin, Philip Gabriel Steverson, and Shoreigh Williams

1900 N. Civic Square, Goodyear, Arizona 85395

 

Alvin Ailey At The Whitney Museum, NYC

by | Nov 21, 2024 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums

“The Whitney Museum of American Art … is the first large-scale museum exhibition to celebrate the life, dances, influences, and enduring legacy of visionary artist and choreographer Alvin Ailey (b. 1931, Rogers, Texas; d. 1989, New York, New York).”

The presentation, “Edges of Ailey consists of an immersive exhibition in the Museum’s 18,000 square-foot fifth-floor galleries—featuring works by more than eighty artists and revelatory archival material—and an ambitious suite of performances in the Museum’s third-floor theater, including AILEY in residence for one week each month during the exhibition.”

A few of the artists included:  Jean Michel-Basquiat, Kara Walker, Elizabeth Catlett, Mickalene Thomas, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Edges of Ailey

Through February 9, 2025.

Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC

(Carmen de Lavallade, by Geoffrey Holder 1976)

 

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Black Artists of Oregon * Portland Art Museum

by | Jan 10, 2024 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll

The Portland Art Museum has the work of 69 Black artists on view until March 17, 2024.

“Through the narrative flow of the exhibition, visitors will experience work by Black artists across decades and generations. Particular attention is given to the works of Black artists who were producing work during the Black Arts Movement of the late 1960s, ’70s, and early ’80s…”

Some of the 69 artists included in the presentation:

manuel arturo abreu (b. 1991)

damali ayo (b. 1972)

Natalie Ball (b. 1980)

J.S. Bell (1882-1925)

Harrison Branch (b. 1947)

Nikesha Breeze (b. 1979)

Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918)

Richard Brown (b. 1939)

Black Artists of Oregon

Portland Art Museum

Until Mar 17, 2024

1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR

(Image: Isaka Shamsud-Din, “Rock of Ages”, 1976)

 

Henry Taylor at The Whitney, NYC

by | Nov 18, 2023 | Art, Artist, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll

“For more than thirty years, the Los Angeles–based artist Henry Taylor (b. 1958) has portrayed people from widely different backgrounds—family members, friends, neighbors, celebrities, politicians, and strangers—with a mixture of raw immediacy and tenderness. His improvisational approach to artmaking is hinted at in this exhibition’s title, Henry Taylor: B Side, which refers to the side of a record album that often contains lesser-known, more experimental songs. “

Henry Taylor: B Side

Oct 4, 2023–Jan 28, 2024

Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC

 

 

 

“Vida Americana” At The Whitney

“Vida Americana” At The Whitney

by | Nov 5, 2023 | Art, Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums

 

The Whitney Museum, NYC, presents: “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945”.

“Mexico underwent a radical cultural transformation at the end of its Revolution in 1920. A new relationship between art and the public was established, giving rise to art that spoke directly to the people about social justice and national life… It galvanized artists in the United States who were seeking to break free of European aesthetic domination to create publicly significant and accessible native art.”

The exhibition contains about 200 works by 60 Mexican and American artists, including José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945

Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC

(Image: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Echo of a Scream, 1937)

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Barbra!

Barbra!

by | Jul 3, 2023 | Arts, Entertainment and Music, Blogroll, CDs, music

Ms Streisand was all over PBS a few years ago with her show “Barbra Streisand: One Night Only At the Village Vanguard”.  She can still touch people with her voice and it was fun to listen and watch her wrap her tiny audience (the NYC club only seats about 150) around her finger – or vocal chords in this case.  She is still amazing.

I wanted to hear more, so dug I out an old Barbra Streisand record “The Broadway Album” (yes, “album” – like I said “old”, but now on CD) and again was in awe of her renditions of some great songs from past musicals. I have a weakness for Broadway show tunes, especially those songs from Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Gershwin – music from Porgy & Bess, Carousel, West Side Story, The King & I, etc. This music appeals to me because it usually has a story to tell, an emotion to crystallize, a longing to express.

Over the years, these little song poems, have become “standards” – they haven’t gone away, they are being sung someplace, somewhere every day.  Whether in person or on CD, Ms Streisand’s versions are beautiful, soaring, romantic, funny & perfect.

Barbra Streisand – a treasure!

(Originally posted May 2020)

 

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