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Autobiography/Performance/Identity:A Symposium on African American and African Diasporan Women in the Visual Arts

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

University of Maryland University College (UMUC) and the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at University of Maryland, College Park, announce
Autobiography/Performance/Identity: A Symposium on African American and African Diasporan Women in the Visual Arts, March 5-6, 2010.

Friday, March 5, 2010
David C. Driskell Center
University of Maryland, College Park

Opening Reception Time: 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

Performance
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons

Exhibition on View
Her Story: Margo Humphrey, Lithographs and Works on Paper

Book Signing
Margo Humphrey, Margo Humphrey, Volume VII
Adrienne L. Childs, Pomegranate, David C. Driskell Series of African American Art

Saturday, March 6, 2010
UMUC Inn and Conference Center
Adelphi, MD

Symposium Time: 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Closing Reception Time: 5 p.m.–7 p.m.

Leading scholars will present on African diasporan women in art, with topics to include:

Keynote
Lorraine O’Grady, Performance Artist

The New Negress: Kara Walker does Josephine Baker
Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

En-Acting Others: Exploring Biography in Identity Performance
Cherise Smith, PhD, University of Texas at Austin

The Arts of Healing
Lisa Gail Collins, PhD, Vassar College

Andrea Chung’s Cutouts: Photography and Rememory in the Caribbean
Krista Thompson, PhD, Northwestern University

Autobiography in the Work of Contemporary African Artists: Marasela, Kure, Essaydi
Christa Clarke, PhD, The Newark Museum

Event Pricing
General Admission: $100
UMUC and UMCP Faculty: $75
Students: $40

*Limited scholarship opportunities are available to students of University of Maryland University College; University of Maryland, College Park; and Maryland high schools. To apply, contact Angela Hutchison at eventsandarts@umuc.edu or at 301-985-7937.

To register, click here.

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Join us at the 3rd Annual Tranquil Space Foundation Gala

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

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3rd Annual Tranquil Space Foundation Gala
Steptoe and Johnson
1330 Connecticut Avenue
Washington, DC
7-9 pm

Authentic Contemporary Art is helping the Tranquil Space Foundation celebrate their third year of bringing yoga, creativity, and leadership to women and girls around the globe by donating artwork from local women artists for this special fundraiser.

Tickets are $30 and are available at Tranquil Space yoga studios in Arlington, Dupont, and Bethesda and online. Ticket presales end online October 5th. Tickets will be available at the door for $40.

This year’s festivities include:
* Creativity celebration: belly dance performance
* Yoga demonstration
* Second annual TSF Awards for service to women and girls in the areas of creative expression and leadership development.
* Wine reception
* Silent auction
* Gift for first 30 guests

To learn more about the Tranquil Space Foundation and to order tickets for this event, visit tranquilspacefoundation.org.

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ArtCast, 24th Edition: Women Visual Artists and How We View Them

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

We are continuing our series called Art and Change, which will focus on how the visual art world to helping to change society, whether on the community level or internationally.

Today’s topic is How Society Views Women Visual Artists and our guest is Pamela Tanner Boll.

Pamela Tanner Boll is an artist, a writer, a filmmaker, and an activist. Pam brought her activism and her art closer together by co-executive producing the Academy award-winning film, “Born into Brothels: The Kids of Calcutta’s Red Light District.” She is currently producing the following film projects: “Global Moms” with director Justine Shapiro (of “Promises”); “In a Dream” (winner of the Emerging Visions Audience Award at SXSW and short listed for the 2009 Academy Awards); and “Connected: A Declaration of Interdependence” with Tiffany Shlain, director of “The Tribe”.

“Who Does She Think She Is?”, Pam’s directorial debut, is a feature-length documentary which follows the stories of five creative and inspiring women who are able to weave their lives as artists—singers, painters, sculptors, printmakers—with their lives as mothers. The film has screened in over 100 theaters and universities across the US and Canada and it has won Best Documentary in the Savannah Film Festival, Baltimore Women’s Film Festival, Old Colony Film Festival and Tupelo Film Festival .

Pamela grew up in Parkersburg, West Virginia then graduated from Middlebury College. She completed graduate studies and has an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on Women and Creativity from Lesley University. She and her husband live in Massachusetts where they have raised their three sons.

You can listen to this podcast through i-tunes ,the podcast home page here or download the mp3 here.

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