https://hunewsservice.com Your Neighborhood. Your Nation. Your News! Wed, 02 Apr 2025 03:46:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://hunewsservice.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-407787_352128264798897_1461219382_n-1-32x32.jpg https://hunewsservice.com 32 32 https://hunewsservice.com/variety/entertainment/howard-faculty-member-honored-at-annual-art-colloquium/ Sun, 14 Apr 2024 21:01:18 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/?p=17188 The James A. Porter Colloquium theme, “Art Legacies, Aesthetic Futures: Art at Howard University,” honored Scott Baker, a 30-year faculty member, with a colloquium award last Saturday. This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the first College of Fine Arts graduate. To celebrate COFA’s legacy, organizers wanted to highlight the legacy of people like Baker.  “If you want to know anything about Howard’s [art] collection, you have to go through Mr. Baker,” said gallery co-director and professor Kathryn Coney-Ali. Baker, who serves as the assistant director and curator of Howard’s art gallery, said he was surprised to learn he had]]> https://hunewsservice.com/variety/entertainment/arts/black-image-maker-shan-wallace-selected-for-the-nmwas-women-to-watch/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 22:10:46 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/?p=17087  The National Museum of Women in the Arts will debut its Women to Watch collection on April 14th. Museum curator Orin Zahra said that she and senior curator Virginia Treanor began creating Women to Watch during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. After witnessing what she called “stark political divisions” that year, they wanted to highlight the artist’s role in civic discourse.  “The exhibition shows the imagination necessary to critically reflect on and complicate today’s realities as well as envision change,” she said.  This exhibit will be one of the museum’s first collections since its first renovation in over]]> https://hunewsservice.com/variety/entertainment/arts/william-h-johnsons-fighters-for-freedom-is-coming-home/ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:22:37 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/?p=16976 William H. Johnson’s lifetime of artwork was nearly discarded due to unpaid storage fees. This month, the artwork will be featured in the Smithsonian American Art Museum.  According to the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), “Fighters for Freedom” is a series painted in the 1940s as a “tribute to African American activists, scientists, teachers and performers.” “It’s one of his most enduring pieces of work,” said Stephen Motte, Curator of Collections at Florence County Museum. “It’s very poignant today with so many social justice issues.” Johnson was born in Florence, South Carolina in 1901. In his late teens, he moved]]> https://hunewsservice.com/variety/entertainment/arts/college-of-fine-arts-prepares-to-host-the-34th-james-a-porter-colloquium/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 21:01:33 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/?p=16983 In 1924, Howard University graduated its first art student, Alma Thomas. Now a century later, Howard’s College of Fine Arts is celebrating the spirit of her work in the James A. Porter Colloquium. Former Department of Art Chair at Howard’s College of Fine Arts Dr. Floyd Coleman, established the colloquium in 1994 to honor Porter, and it has been an annual fixture since.  Associate Art History Professor and Event Curator, Dr. Melanee Harvey stated that this year’s colloquium will celebrate the collaborative and interdisciplinary art practices that Thomas started at the university.  “Even when we think about the type of artists]]> https://hunewsservice.com/variety/entertainment/arts/anacostia-community-museum-aims-to-keep-black-d-c-art-history-alive/ Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:16:59 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/?p=16823 Anacostia Community Museum will debut its exhibit, “The Bold and Beautiful,” to celebrate Black D.C. artists and their educators this month.  “The more you dig into the history of Black artist educators in [D.C.], the more you realize that there really is a lineage, a tradition, across generations,” said Samir Meghelli, curator at Anacostia Community Museum. Meghelli said the Anacostia Community Museum was founded as one of the first museums in the District to consistently feature Black art.  “We were founded in 1967 and at that time, we were one of the few institutions in the city that was really]]> https://hunewsservice.com/variety/entertainment/arts/new-balances-gallery-tour-set-to-make-final-stop-in-baltimore/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 22:58:31 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/?p=16717 New Balance has collaborated with media brand HYPEBEAST to acknowledge the impact three East Coast communities have made on New Balance. They are showcasing exhibits titled “Sounds of an Icon,” with galleries curated to explore Philadelphia, D.C., and Baltimore’s ties to New Balance.  The exhibit will make its final stop in Baltimore on March 2.  D.C. Sounds of Icon panelist and sneaker collector Abdul Fouzi said New Balance was always his neighborhood’s sneaker brand of choice.  “When you went out of town, you could see someone in New Balance and know they were from here,” Fouzi said.  Fouzi said the]]> https://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/howard-takes-paris-fashion-week-by-storm/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 01:30:32 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/?p=16636 By Omari Foote Models glided along a patterned cream floor in jeans loosely tucked into boots with Howard sweaters layered over long button-up shorts.  British Jamaican fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner debuted her highly anticipated Paris Autumn Winter 2024 collection.  Bonner described the show as “an imaginative encounter with the Howard University experience, a celebration of a shining lineage” in the opening paragraph of the show’s notes. “This is a space that nurtures Black thought, and it retains Black thought,” said Moorland archivist John Kennedy. “So it’s not by coincidence that an artist can come here and be inspired.”  Bonner]]>