In this issue
"Black and Blue: Lest We Forget" opens Saturday, January 18
Texas Powered Artists Lineup, February 15
Community Outreach & Activities
Favorite Links
January Calendar
The Collective's Online Store
Jubilee Quilt Circle
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Opening Reception
Saturday, January 18, 3 to 5 p.m.
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Dallas artist and curator Vicki Meek celebrates the historical and inspirational contributions that Dallas's former Bishop College (1961-88) made to black cultural development with her "Black and Blue: Lest We Forget" exhibition opening at The Collective Saturday, January 18.
The exhibition, which runs through February 29, is the original 15 collages used to create the "Black and Blue: Cultural Oasis in the Hills" commemorative markers that comprise the site-specific installation commissioned by the Nasher Sculpture Center for Nasher Xchange 2013-14. This installation is now permanently installed on the campus of Paul Quinn College in Dallas.
"For over 35 years I have spent my creative energies reclaiming African American history in installations that both invoke memory and emotion," Meek stated.
"I have researched my community's past hurts and slights, its horrors and abominations, its beauty marks and its warts, all with the purpose of making my audience face history without apology.
Black & Blue: Cultural Oasis in the Hills was created to help Dallas, particularly Black Dallas, face the truth about one aspect of Bishop College's history and hopefully place Bishop at the center of Black cultural development, a place it has rightfully earned," she continued.
Meek, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a nationally recognized artist whose work is in the permanent collections of the African American Museum in Dallas, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and Norwalk (Connecticut) Community College. She was awarded three public arts commissions with the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Art Program and was co-artist on the largest public art project in Dallas, the Dallas Convention Center Public Art Project. Her retrospective exhibition Vicki Meek: 3 Decades of Social Commentary is currently at Houston Museum of African American Culture through February 16, 2020.
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Coming Soon
Registrations are required.
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Community Outreach and Activities
Operation Love at Blackshear Elementary,
Art Class facilitated by Oriana McMillan
Gift-making class taught by Joan Bristow during the
Ashé
Market
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Favorite links
from our Facebook postings
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The Collective's Online Store
Please Visit
Print Posters, Magnets, Postcards, gifts, more...
Featuring works by artists:
Leslie Abrams, Lee Ann Carrier, Dominic Clay,
Ava Cosey, Carolyn Crump, Laura Fagbemi
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January Activities at The Collective
"Black and Blue: Lest We Forget"
January 18, 23-25, 30-31
Opening Reception January 18, 3 to 5 p.m.
12 noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment
January 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24, 30, 31
Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Fridays, 1 to 3 p.m.
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Join the Jubilee Quilt Circle
Workshops and demonstrations are offered at The Collective,
4101 San Jacinto, Suite 116, on Thursdays
from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. and Fridays from 1 to 3 p.m.
The Community Artists' Collective invites you to learn about and to
work on textiles, including quilting, knitting, crochet and embroidering.
Supplies provided. Suggested donation is $30 per month.
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