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Dr. Monique Y. Wells, A native of Houston, Texas and a 32-year resident of Paris, France. Through her entrepreneurial work as a veterinary pathologist and toxicologist, travel professional, writer, speaker, and mentor, she embraces and harnesses the power of education to change lives. While working in Paris she began researching the history of African Americans there and offered self-guided tours of locations associated with African Americans in Paris. This led to her discovery, in the pauper's division of a cemetery outside Paris, of the unmarked grave of the distinguished artist Beauford Delaney, an American modernist painter well known for his work with the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s and '40s. Delaney moved to Paris in 1953 and continued his production of brilliant figurative and abstract expressionist paintings, including several self-portraits and portraits of James Baldwin. He suffered from mental illness and spent the last four years of his life in a psychiatric institution in the French capital. Fascinated with his story, Monique founded Les Amis de Beauford Delaney, and raised funds for a tombstone to mark his grave. She continues her research and work promoting the legacy of Beauford Delaney. Monique worked for 13 years in the corporate world before combining her passion for life sciences, literacy, STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) education, the arts, travel/study abroad, and women's empowerment under the umbrella of her U.S. non-profit organization, the Wells International Foundation (WIF). She is currently recruiting a select group of high achieving women leaders for membership in WIF's L³ Alliance. Photo credit: Entrée to Black Paris Founder and CEO, Wells International Foundation https://wellsinternationalfoundation.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/WellsInternationalFoundation (https://www.facebook.com/WellsInternationalFoundation/) Most Charitable Marginalised Community Education & Support Organization - South-Central USA (https://www.acquisition-international.com/winners/wells-international-foundation/) - 2022 - Acquisition International 100 Phenomenal Black Women Fundraiser Award - 2021 10 To Know Global Game Changers in Women's Empowerment - 2018 - The Introducer Magazine Black Women in Europe Power List (https://blackwomenineurope.com/2016/12/07/monique-wells-black-women-in-europe-power-list-2016-a-list-of-our-own/) - 2016 http://walkerslegacy.com/latest-buzz/the-list-12-global-entrepreneurs/?utm_source=12+Global+Entrepreneurs&utm_campaign=OCT-15+Newsletter&utm_medium=emailThe List: 12 Global Entrepreneurs to Watch (http://walkerslegacy.com/latest-buzz/the-list-12-global-entrepreneurs/?utm_source=12+Global+Entrepreneurs&utm_campaign=OCT-15+Newsletter&utm_medium=email) - 2015 - Walker's Legacy Visit our YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPU4szgNs5VG1F_4RF8dLFw) channel! Enjoy highlights of our 2019 International Women's Day event - The Successful Woman (https://the-successful-woman.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Event_Highlights_2019_TSW.mp4) Watch me present WIF during my Talking about Success (https://www.jackcanfield.com/pages/success-tv-talking-about-success-5/) interview with Jack Canfield!

“Paris noir” Circulations artistiqueset luttes anticoloniales 1950 – 2000au Centre Pompidou, Parisdu 19 mars au 30 juin 2025Entretien avecAurélien Bernardet Marie Siguier, attaché.es de conservation, service de la création contemporaine et prospective, Musée national d'art moderne − Centre Pompidou, commissaires associé.es de l'exposition,par Anne-Frédérique Fer, à Paris, le 17 mars 2025, durée 32'19,© FranceFineArt.https://francefineart.com/2025/03/25/3603_paris-noir_centre-pompidou/Communiqué de presseCommissariat :Alicia Knock, conservatrice, cheffe du service de la création contemporaine et prospective, Musée national d'art moderne − Centre Pompidou.Commissaires associé.es : Éva Barois De Caevel, conservatrice, Aurélien Bernard, Laure Chauvelot, et Marie Siguier, attaché.es de conservation, service de la création contemporaine et prospective, Musée national d'art moderne − Centre Pompidou.De la création de la revue Présence africaine à celle de Revue noire, l'exposition « Paris noir » retrace la présence et l'influence des artistes noirs en France entre les années 1950 et 2000. Elle met en lumière 150 artistes afro-descendants, de l'Afrique aux Amériques, dont les œuvres n'ont souvent jamais été montrées en France.« Paris noir » est une plongée vibrante dans un Paris cosmopolite, lieu de résistance et de création, qui a donné naissance à une grande variété de pratiques, allant de la prise de conscience identitaire à la recherche de langages plastiques transculturels. Des abstractions internationales aux abstractions afro-atlantiques, en passant par le surréalisme et la figuration libre, cette traversée historique dévoile l'importance des artistes afro-descendants dans la redéfinition des modernismes et post-modernismes.Quatre installations produites spécifiquement pour « Paris noir » par Valérie John, Nathalie Leroy-Fiévée, Jay Ramier et Shuck One, rythment le parcours en portant des regards contemporains sur cette mémoire. Au centre de l'exposition, une matrice circulaire reprend le motif de l'Atlantique noir, océan devenu disque, métonymie de la Caraïbe et du « Tout-Monde », selon la formule du poète martiniquais, Édouard Glissant comme métaphore de l'espace parisien. Attentive aux circulations, aux réseaux comme aux liens d'amitié, l'exposition prend la forme d'une cartographie vivante et souvent inédite de Paris.Une cartographie artistique transnationaleDès les années 1950, des artistes afro-américains et caribéens explorent à Paris de nouvelles formes d'abstraction (Ed Clark, Beauford Delaney, Guido Llinás), tandis que des artistes du continent esquissent les premiers modernismes panafricains (Paul Ahyi, Skunder Boghossian, Christian Lattier, Demas Nwoko). De nouveaux mouvements artistiques infusent à Paris, tels que celui du groupe Fwomaje (Martinique) ou le Vohou-vohou (Côte d'Ivoire). L'exposition fait également place aux premières mouvances post-coloniales dans les années 1990, marquées par l'affirmation de la notion de métissage en France.Un hommage à la scène afro-descendante à ParisAprès la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Paris devient un centre intellectuel où convergent des figures comme James Baldwin, Suzanne et Aimé Césaire ou encore Léopold Sédar Senghor qui y posent les fondations d'un avenir post et décolonial. L'exposition capte l'effervescence culturelle et politique de cette période, au coeur des luttes pour l'indépendance et des droits civiques aux États-Unis, en offrant une plongée unique dans les expressions plastiques de la négritude, du panafricanisme et des mouvements transatlantiques.[...] Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Durante a segunda metade do século XX, Paris serviu primeiro de escola de arte e depois como cidade agregadora do pensamento africano, com os maiores vultos culturais senegaleses, americanos, cubanos ou angolanos a passarem pela Cidade da Luz. A exposição "Paris Noir", no Centro Pompidou, conta este período e quer projectar estes artistas pioneiros no futuro. No pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial, numa altura os movimentos das independências estavam em pleno andamento em África, muitos pintores, escultores, mas também filósofos, escritores, poetas e pedagogos africanos ou vindos das Américas instalam-se a Paris, participando nas grandes correntes artísticas como o surrealismo ou o abstracionismo a partir dos anos 40. No entanto, esta passagem não tinha qualquer reflexo nas retrospectivas organizadas até hoje no Centro Pompidou, um museu parisiense dedicado à arte contemporânea.Esta reflexão, levou os curadores do museu a idealizarem a exposição "Paris Noir", aproveitando a ocasião para mostrar 40 obras adquiridas nos últimos anos pelo fundo dedicado ao continente africano no seio desta instituição francesa. Em entrevista à RFI, Eva Barois de Caevel, comissária associada desta exposição, explicou que a palavra noir, ou preto, vai muito para além da definição de uma raça ou de uma geografia, mas que a exposição agrega diferentes artistas que devido às suas origens foram vítimas de racismo ou subvalorizados no mundo da arte."Nesta exposição temos também, por exemplos afro-colombianos e afro-brasileiros, assim como cubanos ou dominicanos. É muito importante porque esta não é uma exposição sobre geografia ou raça. É uma exposição que trata de uma experiência comum compartilhada e estes artistas fazem parte da História. Para encontrarmos estes artistas, muitas vezes é levada a cabo uma investigação aprofundada sobre cada um e, a partir de um, descobrimos um outro e um militante pela resistência, muitas vezes leva-nos a outro militante. E descobrir estes artistas e fazê-los descobrir ao público foi o nosso mote e posso mesmo dizer que descobrimos muitos mais, mas não conseguimos mostrar todos. Às vezes o público até pode achar estranho já que a nível geográfica não ficamos só em África, mas não tem só a ver com ser negro e africano. Por exemplo, estamos a expor aqui um artista indiano, Krishna Reddy, que viveu em Paris vários anos e estava na cidade durante o Maio de 68 e foi vítima de racismo porque era constantemente confundido com um argelino. E as suas obras reflectem isso. E, assim, claro que nesta exposição não nos cingimos só a artistas de países francófonos, mas temos também lusófonos e artista vindos de outras regiões", explicouA história desta exposição começa a ser contada em 1947 quando é fundada a editora Presença Africana, pelo senegalês Alioune Diop, com a consciência negra a sedimentar-se à volta de pensadores como Leópold Sédar Senghor com a participação de Aimé Césaire, político, poeta e escritor da Martinica, e da sua mulher, Suzanne, a participarem na revista Tropiques. Juntam-se a esta efervescência artistas afro-americanos como o escritor James Baldwin ou o pintor Beauford Delaney.É neste clima que se realiza o primeiro congresso de artistas e escritores negros na Sorbonne em 1956. Ao mesmo tempo, Sarah Maldoror, uma jovem francesa com origens na Guadalupe, cria em Paris a primeira companhia de teatro para negros depois de constatar, ainda como actriz, que só lhe davam papéis de empregada de quarto tanto no teatro como no cinema. Foi exactamente no círculo da editora Presença Africana que Sarah Maldoror conheceu Mario de Andrade, escritor e fundador do Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, que viria a ser seu marido.Este encontro levou-a a interessar-se pelos diferentes movimentos de libertação nos países lusófonos em África, com Maldoror a realizar algumas das obras cinematográficas mais emblemáticas destes movimentos como Armas para Banta, rodado em 1970 na Guiné-Bissau, ou SAMBIZANGA, rodado em Angola em 1973."A escolha de Sarah Maldoror era óbvia para nós desde o início para figurar nesta exposição. Por um lado, porque Maldoror é uma artista fascinante, mas também por causa de um aspecto realmente importante que é o facto de a história de muitos dos artistas nesta exposição nunca ter sido registada ou cuidada pelas instituições francesas. Foi sim, cuidada pelos próprios artistas ou por pensadores contemporâneos. Sarah Maldoror é uma figura extremamente importante nesse aspecto. Trabalhámos com a sua filha, Anouchka de Andrade e foi a Anouchka quem nos emprestou algumas das obras da exposição. Teremos uma mostra de cinema com os filmes de Sarah Maldoror em Abril e ao longo da exposição vamos mostrando aqui trechos dos seus filmes . Ela tem não só esta faceta de coleccionadora, mas de documentarista e queremos homenageá-la. Conseguimos restaurar os seus filmes e estamos muito interessados em continuar a estudar os seus interesses e como eles entraram no seu cinema. E, claro, o seu compromisso militante , que acho que também será celebrado durante a retrospectiva, com muitos testemunhos, muitos convidados, entre eles artistas. Será um grande evento dentro desta exposição", disse Eva Barois de Caevel.Entre algumas das obras dos fundos de Sarah Maldoror apresentadas nesta exposição, estão dois quadros do pintor angolano Vítor Manuel Teixeira, conhecido como Viteix, que se instalou em Paris em 1973. Viteix vai voltar a Angola em 1976 tentando através da sua arte criar uma união nacional e concluindo alguns anos mais tarde uma tese de doutoramento na Sorbonne sobre este tema.A exposição estende-se até aos anos 2000, com muitos artistas e combates a passarem por Paris como testemunham as obras de Victor Anicet, Basquiat ou o dominicano José Castillo. Mas esta é, sobretudo, uma exposição virada para o futuro, sendo a última a ser apresentada neste museu parisiense antes de grandes obras de reabilitação que deverão durar até 2030. Nesse momento, o desejo de Eva Barois de Caevel é que o Centro Pompidou reabra as suas portas com uma nova visão da cultura e intervenção social."Esta é realmente uma exposição que para nós é um ponto de partida, como uma grande cartografia que serve de primeiro marco e que a partir de 2030 se vai desdobrar em propostas temáticas para o museu. Há muitos assuntos que podemos retirar daqui desde o militantismo, à questão da Argélia ou à questão da tricontinentalidade, todos esses são assuntos que precisam ser abordados em sua totalidade", concluiu a comissária associada.

 In the seventh episode of “Notes on a Native Son" our guest is writer, philologist and James Baldwin biographer David Leeming. In the biography, Leeming tells us that almost from the moment h e met Baldwin, he recognized that he was in the presence of a highly complex and driven individual, who was more intensely serious than anyone he had ever encountered.It was in 1961, during Leeming's time as head of English at the Robert College in Istanbul, that he first met Baldwin. Over the years, Leeming worked as an assistant to Baldwin, who gave him permission to take care of his papers. He tells host Razia Iqbal that he was at the author's side during some of Baldwn's liveliest years.Leeming eventually became professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Connecticut. He has written several books on comparative literature and mythology, as well as a biography of the painter Beauford Delaney, who Baldwin regarded as his spiritual father. Tell us what you think. We're @noteswithkai on Instagram and X (Twitter). Email us at notes@wnyc.org. Send us a voice message by recording yourself on your phone and emailing us, or record one here.Notes from America airs live on Sundays at 6 p.m. ET. The podcast episodes are lightly edited from our live broadcasts.

Kevin Young, Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, discusses James Baldwin's burgeoning career as a writer and critic as well as his tortured relationship with his own sexuality and desire for love through the lens of his controversial second novel Giovanni's Room. Then Baldwin historian Ed Pavlić reveals some surprising mentors and influences on Baldwin, including Zora Neale Hurston, Henry James, Richard Wright, Beauford Delaney, and others. This podcast is a production of Penguin Random House Media + Knopf Publishing. It is hosted by Cree Myles, produced by Stephanie Bowen and Shalea Harris, edited by Clayton Gumbert, and executive produced by Trevor Baldwin.For more information and to get the deluxe centenary editions of James Baldwin's works, check out JamesBaldwinBooks.com, JamesBaldwin.info, and All Ways BlackListen to more podcasts from Penguin Random House:THIS IS TASTE, a food culture podcast CRIMINAL TYPES, a podcast featuring your favorite crime fiction authorsMARLON & JAKE READ DEAD PEOPLE, co-hosted by Marlon JamesBOOKS CONNECT US

Beauford Delaney estate administrator, Derek Spratley joins Hal. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

When the $270 million dollar Gerald Fineberg collection was announced, Christie's Sara Friedlander remarked that the Boston real estate developer, “bought art like a curator.” Citing his ability to go deep into key movements like the artists of Black Mountain College, the Ninth Street Women, Gutai, Pop, Minimalism, Arte Povera and the Pictures Generation, Friedlander also points out that Fineberg had important works by Gerhard Richter, Christopher Wool, Alice Neel, Man Ray, Beauford Delaney and Barkley Hendricks. We sat down this week to talk through as much of the art on offer as we could possibly discuss in 30 minutes. Highlights from the Fineberg collection are on view at Christie's until May 13th when the entire collection will be on display at the auction house's Rockefeller Center headquarters. The highlights are hung in an engaging “salon” style—that means the works are sitting edge-to-edge—but the final exhibition will offer a different perspective. Auction season in New York is a rare opportunity to see art. The auction houses are open to the public. So avail yourself of this privilege starting May 6th.

Thanks for listening! This week Sinclaire presents a Rembrandt self-portrait and then shows us around the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston which she visited. Kendal tells us the story of Beauford Delaney, a Harlem-Renaissance, Abstract Expressionist portrait painter. Max will soon be telling us about a museum each week! All episodes up on Spotify, Apple, and most podcasting platforms. Let us know in a comment or email if you listen on a platform we are not on yet. POCOT Instagram: @paint_on_canvas_on_tapeEmail:paintoncanvasontape@gmail.com

Americans love Paris. The food. The art. The language. Black Americans also love Paris--for different reasons. The freedom. The equality. The experience of living in a "colorblind" society. This led many Black Americans to settle in Paris. James Baldwin. Chester Himes. Beauford Delaney. Josephine Baker. Jazz musicians. Artists.  Military servicemen. Black Americans were looking for a "home" where they could live without the pervasive racism and violence in America. For many, Paris became this new home. The Espresso Talk Today team discusses the Black American presence and influence in Paris with Monique Wells who founded Entrée to Black Paris tours, which conducts tours of Paris focusing on the Black American and Black diasporan presence in the City of Lights. Join the team to learn the surprising and untold stories of Black Americans in Paris. Forget the Eiffel Tower. See the café where America's greatest Black writers would gather in Paris! 

Dans les années 1950, Paris séduit de nombreux artistes ​américains, attirés par la vie de bohème et le bouillonnement créatif. Deux d'entre eux, John-Franklin Koenig et Beauford Delaney, vont s'y installer et renouveler le mouvement de l’art abstrait. Dans ce nouvel épisode du podcast Europe 1 Studio "Au cœur de l’Histoire", réalisé en partenariat avec le Musée d'arts de Nantes, à l'occasion de l'exposition "United States of Abstraction : Artistes américains en France, 1946-1964", Jean des Cars retrace le parcours de ces deux ​précurseurs. 

Since many of you are getting your college decisions and trying to figure out where you are going to spend the next four years of your life, we decided to take a little trip down memory lane! For the game, each of us (Jamila, Madison, Nyah, Zimra, and I) chose snippets from our college essays (personal statement or supplementals) and put them all into a hat. Then, we drew them one by one, all of us trying to guess who wrote each snippet. This game was pretty fun and I think it’s funny to listen to as well. Thank you for being here!! P.S. I am sorry for the screams. Interesting things mentioned: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brief_Wondrous_Life_of_Oscar_Wao Chrstine’s Apple Pie (Masterchef clip): https://youtu.be/WIGXboHpge0 Feed My Starving Children organization: https://www.fmsc.org/ 2+2 is 4, minus 1 that’s 3 quick maths (and the ting goes pop): https://youtu.be/M3ujv8xdK2w?t=97 Untitled Self Portrait by Beauford Delaney at the Art Institute of Chicago: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111629/self-portrait Follow the girls: Jamila: https://www.instagram.com/jamila.spears/ Madison: https://www.instagram.com/heymadisonlee/ Nyah: https://www.instagram.com/itsnyahb/ Zimra: https://www.instagram.com/zimras_photos/ Send me voice messages!: https://anchor.fm/jane-chakraborty/message Music Credit: "Shades of Spring" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Station 5 - The Cross is Laid on Simon of Cyrene Narrated by the Rev'd Nancy Gallagher, Rector of St. John the Divine in Springfield. In this episode: Art: Can Fire in the Park by Beauford Delaney, 1946  All art featured in this audio pilgrimage series is drawn from "Stations of the Cross at SAAM," developed by Victoria Emily Jones of Art & Theology, and is part of the collection at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC. View full Stations of the Cross at SAAM.  Music: Improvisations by Bruce Neswick (Improvisation 2), Canon for Cathedral Music at Trinity Cathedral Poetry: "Simon of Cyrene," by Julia Sumner "Simon the the Cyrene, He Who Carried the Cross," by Khalil Jabran For a version of this episode with closed-captioning, view it on our YouTube channel. --- This series of weekly audio reflections will help you learn to link the divine with your daily life. How might Jesus’ final hours feel different when juxtaposed with a walk in the neighborhood, or in a quiet corner at home, or while driving to pick up take-out? Pause a few times a week for scripture, prayers, and music led by Trinity clergy and priests from across the Diocese of Oregon.  New Stations drop every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning, through Holy Week. Be sure to click subscribe! --- Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and learn more about this open & welcoming community, including upcoming events, at trinity-episcopal.org. To support this podcast and all our work, which is supported in part by the generosity of our listeners, visit trinity-episcopal.org/give

This week on Out of Office: A Travel Podcast, Ryan hops in the jalopy and heads to Knoxville, Tennessee and the Great Smoky Mountains. Plus, Kiernan realizes that somehow they’ve recorded eighty four episodes without ever talking about Ryan’s proclivity for doll furniture. Things we talked about in today’s podcast: Knoxville Urban Wilderness https://www.visitknoxville.com/urban-wilderness/ SoKno Taco Cantina https://soknota.co/ Market Square in Knoxville https://www.visitknoxville.com/blog/post/10-things-to-know-about-market-square/ The Sunsphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunsphere  Knoxville Museum of Art’s Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door https://knoxart.org/exhibitions/beauford-delaney-and-james-baldwin-through-the-unusual-door/?fbclid=IwAR0-LC-ypve4glLMCt8KO0snbhITplQMdBB0CWj1VxuvwZFmAB0vGYC6Ls4  Knoxville Museum of Art’s Thorne Miniatures Rooms https://knoxart.org/exhibitions/thorne-rooms/  Downtown Wine+Spirits https://www.dtwine.com Rainbow Falls, Great Smoky Mountains https://www.nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/rainbow-falls-pyv.htm  Tuckaleechee Caverns https://tuckaleecheecaverns.com/development-of-caverns/ Avoiding Bear Attacks https://www.news.meredithlmg.com/general/what-not-to-do-in-a-bear-attack-push-your-slower-friends-down-in-attempts/article_531801ea-f4be-5571-be0f-e121786c1caa.html Toxic Cyanobacteria in Zion National Park https://www.nps.gov/zion/planyourvisit/toxic-cyanobacteria-bloom-in-the-virgin-river-and-the-streams-of-zion-national-park.htm 

Monique Wells, the founder of @entreetoblackparis - a tour company that offers tours showcasing the contributions of Africans and people of African descent to the history and culture of Paris-, joins me for a second episode! In this episode, she talks to us about the life of her favourite African American Creative, the painter Beauford Delaney. For some of Monique's favourite paintings by Beauford, check out my Instagram account : @hiddenparispodcast.You can contact Monique at paris@entreetoblackparis.com to book a tour. For more tips on places to visit in and around Paris, follow me on Instagram : @hiddenparispodcast.

Episode No. 467 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Tomashi Jackson and curator Stephen Wicks. The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University is showing "Tomashi Jackson: Love Rollercoaster," an exhibition of five new Jackson paintings that address disenfranchisement and voter suppression in Ohio's Black communities. The exhibition was originally conceived by Michael Goodson and was curated by Kristin Helmick-Brunet, Dionne Custer Edwards, and Megan Cavanaugh. It is on view in Columbus through December 27. Jackson is also included in "States of Mind: Art and American Democracy" at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University in Houston. The exhibition investigates how artists have addressed issues before the nation this season, including equality, voting access, gun control and immigration policy. It was curated by Ylinka Barotto along with Julia Fisher and Julia Kidd. It's on view through December 19. Jackson's work examines the relationship between politics, race, history and aesthetics, most often in ways that emphasize how history has created the present. She's previously had solo exhibitions at Kennesaw State University and at Michigan State University; with exhibitions at the Parrish Art Museum and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University forthcoming. Her work is in the collections of MOCA in Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Learn more about Lucy Depp Park in Powell, Ohio. On the second segment, Stephen Wicks discusses his exhibition "Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin: Through the Unusual Door" at the Knoxville Museum of Art. It is on view through October 25. The exhibition uses over 50 paintings and works on paper and unpublished archival material to examine the nearly four-decade-long relationship between the Knoxville-born Delaney and Baldwin and the ways in which their friendship and intellectual exchange impacted their work.

Episode Twenty-Eight features Nigel Freeman. He is the director of the African-American Fine Art department at Swann Auction Galleries. He founded the department in the fall of 2006, and since then has set numerous auction records for important African-American artists, including John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Beauford Delaney, Sargent Johnson, Hughie Lee-Smith, Faith Ringgold and Carrie Mae Weems. Many were the result of significant institutional purchases. The department has also held the single-owner auctions of the estate of Dr. Maya Angelou and the collections of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Johnson Publishing Company, Swann's first white glove auction. Swann is the only major auction house with a department dedicated to African-American Fine Art. Outside of Swann, Nigel is a print appraiser on the PBS television show Antiques Roadshow. He has lectured on the subject of African-American art at the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the South Side Community Art Center in Chicago. He has also been interviewed by such magazines as The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Art+Auction, Art and Antiques, The Art Newspaper and on the BBC and National Public Radio. Nigel entered the auction world in 1997 with a background in fine art as a painter and printmaker after earning a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University in 1991, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Art from Brown University in 1989. Previously, Nigel was the associate director of Swann’s Prints & Drawings department. Enoy. https://www.swanngalleries.com/ https://www.swanngalleries.com/news/african-american-fine-art/2019/12/african-american-art-from-the-johnson-publishing-company/ https://news.artnet.com/market/johnson-publishing-white-glove-auction-1766616 https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/appraisers/nigel-freeman/ https://www.culturetype.com/2014/02/11/culture-talk-swanns-nigel-freeman-on-early-african-american-art/

A revealing conversation about the life and teachings of James Baldwin that draws on Beauford Delaney, the pivotal role of invested teachers, and how the writer shaped the racial and cultural landscape in America. In this episode of Dialogues, Pulitzer Prize winning cultural critic Hilton Als is joined in conversation by friend, collaborator, and thought partner Thelma Golden of The Studio Museum in Harlem for a conversation on Baldwin that traces back to their very first meeting at The Odeon. Brought together on the occasion of the exhibition God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin curated by Als, the duo examine the legacy of Baldwin and his impact on both their own work and today’s culture. God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin is on view at David Zwirner, New York, through 2 PM Saturday, February 16, 2019. For more of what’s to come on Dialogues, listen to our trailer or visit davidzwirner.com/podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A revealing conversation about the life and teachings of James Baldwin that draws on Beauford Delaney, the pivotal role of invested teachers, and how the writer shaped the racial and cultural landscape in America. In this episode of Dialogues, Pulitzer Prize winning cultural critic Hilton Als is joined in conversation by friend, collaborator, and thought partner Thelma Golden of The Studio Museum in Harlem for a conversation on Baldwin that traces back to their very first meeting at The Odeon. Brought together on the occasion of the exhibition God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin curated by Als, the duo examine the legacy of Baldwin and his impact on both their own work and today’s culture. God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin is on view at David Zwirner, New York, through 2 PM Saturday, February 16, 2019. For more of what’s to come on Dialogues, listen to our trailer or visit davidzwirner.com/podcast.

Trey and Grant debut "Finishing Kenny" before bringing Knoxville legend and art collector Sylvia Peters to talk about Knoxville-born artist Beauford Delaney and the impact his work is having in East Tennessee and around the world. Contact us: tipofthesunsphere@gmail.com

In this episode we have with us, Rodney Miller. Based in New York City, Rodney’s collection of contemporary art reflects his interest modern and contemporary African American and African art of the diaspora. Rodney serves on the board of trustees at The Studio Museum Harlem and is on the board of the University of Indiana’s business school. His collection of over 200 works features examples by artists such as Beauford Delaney, Romare Bearden, Alma Thomas, and Hale Woodruff alongside contemporary artists including Shinique Smith, Carrie Mae Weems, Glenn Ligon, Odili Donald Odita and Hank Willis Thomas.

A native Houstonian and 22-year resident of Paris, France, Monique is a long time “corporate escapee” who has three entrepreneurial businesses in preclinical safety consulting, travel planning for Paris, and productivity mentoring and training. She is also president of a French non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve and promote the legacy of artist Beauford Delaney. Thanks to her businesses, she's living her dream life in Paris!

A native Houstonian and 22-year resident of Paris, France, Monique is a long time "corporate escapee" who has three entrepreneurial businesses in preclinical safety consulting, travel planning for Paris, and productivity mentoring and training. She is also president of a French non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve and promote the legacy of artist Beauford Delaney. Thanks to her businesses, she’s living her dream life in Paris! Monique is a technophobe and "recovering Wonder Woman" whose easy-going personality is a comfort to her fellow Introverts as well as to Extroverts who appreciate her calm demeanor.