The House of Shakur

11/19/2015

http://www.truelaurels.com/blog/2015/11/18/qtipocs-on-the-block-faka

People with bodies like mine are manipulated, chastised, and exploited on a daily basis in a world ran and ruined by white supremacy and capitalism. Black people’s vessels have been shaded since the days of slavery where slaves were countlessly used to conduct inhumane science experiments to today w…

10/22/2015

http://soulsurfing.website/index.php/2015/10/13/scientists-have-found-that-memories-may-be-passed-down-through-generations-in-our-dna/

New research from Emory University School of Medicine, in Atlanta, has shown that it is possible for some information to be inherited biologically through chemical changes that occur in DNA. During…

10/19/2015

“There is growing interest in African-American artists who came up in the 1960s and 1970s and remained true to abstraction despite pressures to embrace subject matter driven by politics or identity."

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/46983/return-to-splendor-sam-gilliams-art-is-more-relevant-than

Sam Gilliam's art is more relevant than ever, but don't call it a comeback.

10/13/2015

"The report said that minority-focused arts organizations’ most debilitating weakness has been difficulty in attracting private, individual donors, a demographic whose charitable giving far exceeds the grantmaking of foundations, corporations and government...A survey to which 29 of the 60 black and Latino arts groups in the study replied showed that the median percentage of donations coming from individuals was 5%. The norm is about 60% for big mainstream arts organizations."

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-diversity-arts-study-devos-black-latino-groups-funding-20151009-story.html

Sending "a wake-up call" to arts donors, a new national study paints a bleak economic picture of African American and Latino nonprofit museums and performing arts companies and suggests that donors may have to let weaker organizations wither so that the strongest ones can grow.

07/23/2015

http://newblackman.blogspot.com/2015/07/cfp-digitalblackness-conference-at.html?m=1

04/24/2015

Are you ready for Summer?

Executive Produced by Proda Photography by Xxavier Polk Cover Art by Co***ne Casket Mastered by Mark “IQ” Adlam for Majiq Entertainment

04/06/2015

Please contribute what you can for our friend Morgan to continue thriving and working in our community. She is a valued community artist whose words and work deserves complete proliferation in this day and age. Xo http://www.youcaring.com/other/help-morgan-survive-/332337 #.VSGtEHtysvI.facebook

Hi there, my name is Morgan. I'm a trans latina living and working in Austin, TX. I am a poet, published author, performing artist, community advocate and family builder. My work focuses around amplifying the voices of trans women of color and leaving legacy so that our children remember us. My...

04/05/2015

Avery has been an essential component to our community's care. Please help our friend reach his goal! http://www.gofundme.com/qez8ec

Our dear friend Avery who recently turned 33 was diagnosed with cancer.  Some of the treatment options he's facing are extreme including the possible loss of his leg. Not only is this a scary and stressful time, but it is also expensive.  We are asking for donations of any size to help with the i...

04/05/2015

Goals http://www.youcaring.com/help-a-neighbor/support-sojos-liberate-qtipoc-gathering-healing-space/324933 #.VSBflLElwvU.facebook

Where We Are Landing In the past two months, the comrades of Sojourners Land and QTIPoC grounding in Tennessee have been connecting with Land that we feel can hold us. Three acres atop the mountain became available when we were not looking outwardly, but were steadily doing our inner work of...

04/02/2015

We miss our Qiana-Kitt! Thank you for blessing this House. http://www.electric-llama.com/2015/04/5-minutes-with-qiana-kitt-shakur/

5 Minutes with Qiana Kitt-Shakur. Interview with Qiana Kitt-Shakur

04/01/2015

Waking up with The Suffers from Houston, TX. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JWRoekeAnpw

The Houston band tears it up with their network television debut.

03/30/2015

QTPOC sober social meet up by the Codeswitch Collaborators

03/30/2015

Our Hi Tea sober mixer photos are up! Thank you to Cindy Elizabeth for helping to capture such a special and historic evening!!!

03/11/2015

It's really almost life and death to think about money in creative ways. - Lisa Fischer

http://www.wnyc.org/story/lisa-fischer-death-sex-money/?utm_content=buffer245a5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=wnyc-facebook

You've heard Lisa Fischer singing backup vocals for everyone from the Rolling Stones to Beyoncé. But after decades of touring with rock stars, Fischer lives in a far more humble reality.

03/09/2015

For all of my friends going through some things this week.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KW0kE6mucFY

Distributed by WMG Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy perform the title track from Mavis' upcoming album 'You Are Not Alone,' in stores September 14th Anti Record...

02/18/2015

The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin presents Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties, an exhibition of approximately 100 works by 66 artists that explores how painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and photography not only responded to the political and social turmoil of the era, but also helped influence its direction.

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the exhibition highlights the wide-ranging aesthetic approaches used to address the struggle for civil rights.

Some events in conjunction with this exhibit:

Civil Rights Panel
Wednesday, April 8, 6 p.m.
LBJ Auditorium
The Blanton will co-host a panel discussion on the Civil Rights Movement with the University of Texas’ LBJ Library and Museum and Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.

Film Screening
Thursday, February 19, 6:30 p.m.
Eyes on the Prize: The Promised Land (60 minutes) Covers the last year of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and the turn of the Civil Rights Movement toward addressing economic inequality. Conversation with film director Paul Stekler follows.

Blanton Perspectives
Sunday, February 22, 2 p.m.
Artist Jack Whitten and Witness co-curator Kellie Jones discuss the works and themes of the exhibition, with a focus on Whitten’s work and the development of his practice since the 1960s.

Works on display until May 10, 2015


http://blantonmuseum.org

Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin