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Friday, April 19, 2024
Assembling and toppling dominos
For yesterday's conference, the high school students worked in teams, assisted by my undergraduates, to assemble various domino designs. They had a good time trying to assemble within the time limits that I kept setting.
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A photo-review of Artbook Browsing sessions
A few photos of students browsing artbooks and sketching images during our Language Arts conference.
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Browsing Artbooks & Sketching Images
For many years now, I've tried to think of ways to share aspects of my book collections with students. Starting in Back in 2009, I started hosting "browsing sessions" to share the many volumes of poetry I collected with students. Later, I hosted browsing sessions focusing on comic books, and then more recently, I acquired enough artbooks to feature those.
The artbooks gave me a chance to add a new dimension to the project. In 2022, I worked with one of my former professors, William Harris, on a project. I always knew he frequently visited museums to view art. What I learned, though, was that he often took a notebook to the shows and produced sketches of what he saw.
Thinking about what he did led me to create browsing and sketching sessions. The students viewed African artbooks as well as books featuring art by Jacob Lawrence, Kehinde Wiley, Amy Sherald, Kerry James Marshall, and Bisa Butler.
Browsing exposed the students to a variety of ideas, and drawing gave them an opportunity to participate in a hands-on activity. Early on, the guys are really talkative, but after a while, the room gets quiet as they get really serious about sketching images.
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The Language Arts Conference, Spring 2024
This conference, like our past ones, gave us chances to involve Black boys in arts and humanities activities.
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Thursday, April 18, 2024
Casting Viola Davis (whiteboard animation)
Here's a short whiteboard animation on Viola Davis that briefly considers ongoing struggles related to representations. This short piece is an excerpt of a longer podcast episode.
Words by Nicole Dixon
Black Arts Next
My graduate student and arts collaborator Nicole Dixon and I came up with this idea, Black Arts Next, to showcase an array of artistic productions.
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Conversing with Jim the Crow about the ways of the world
The composition was produced by Al Henderson in 2010 as part of the Malcolm X Mixtape.
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