Slog - Comments on Heavy Subject http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/black_art_black_art_1 Carl Pope's 2005 text piece, being used as the poster for the Black Is, Black Ain't show at The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. Wednesday I spent some time at Seattle Art Museum with Sandra Jackson-Dumont, the deputy director for education at the museum and also curator of a new show in the Gwen Knight and Jacob Lawrence Gallery on the third floor, called Black Art. A podcast with Jackson-Dumont will come out next week. In it, she talks a little about a future fellowship program attached to the gallery, the gallery's future as a place devoted... Copyright 2008 Fri, 30 May 2008 11:00:01 -0800 Fri, 30 May 2008 20:42:40 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me Yawn.

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]]> Emily http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/black_art_black_art_1#c1036973 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/black_art_black_art_1#c1036973 Visual Art Fri, 30 May 2008 20:42:40 -0800