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New Historiography for Black Excellence: Jamal Cyrus “The End of My Beginning” at the Blaffer Art Museum

by Caitlin Duerler Chávez At the 1900 Paris Exposition, W.E.B. Dubois presented an award-winning display of “data portraits”—colorful depictions of demographics of African Americans post-slavery through the turn of the century. Information such as the large concentration of Black people in southern states and the total value of their financial assets were illustrated in a

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Thoughtcrime LIVE–June 2021

This VIRTUAL Poetry event hosted by TASI, featuring eleven SETX Poets and Performers. The Art Studio Inc will be debuting Facebook videos Monday, June 14th through Saturday, June 19th, 2021. Subscribe to TASI YouTube and check the full playlist of Thoughtcrime LIVE 2021! #setxtalent Click the here to join the event and receive Facebook notifications

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in the pop-up: Colorful & ‘Cattywampus’ with Cissie Owen, May 2021

by Michelle Cate, assistant curator at The Art Studio, Inc. Cissie Owen is a retired Lamar professor who has spent years teaching her students about how to get inside the destructive yet creatively warped mind of theoretical terrorists. Since retirement she has found a new way to channel her creativity… the fiber arts! For years

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TASIMJAE 2021

2021 Awards: 1st Place: Caleb Sims “Bolito Bunnies” 2nd Place: Maurice Abelman “Augmented Hydrant” 3rd Place: Kelli Scofield “Space XXIII” Honorable Mentions: Anna Myers, Delayna Gonzalez-Keller, John Alexander Thank you to all TASI Members who worked hard and entered TASIMJAE 2021. Jurored by Lynn Castle, Executive Director of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. Facebook

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