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Tucson’s African Art Village returns after pandemic hiatus

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Saturday marked opening day and a long-awaited reunion for a community that brings African cultures to Tucson. The African Art Village returned to the Menlo Park area of the ...
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Tucson’s African Art Village wraps up after a three-week-long showcase

The African Art Village is in its last week, with shop closing up on Sunday. The annual event draws vendors and visitors from across the nation. Kissima Drammeh is one of the vendors who has been ...
The New York Times

In Dakar, African Art Speaks in All Its Voices

In its first pandemic-era edition, the Dakar Biennale, Africa’s biggest art gathering, is uneven, hectic — and full of possibility. By Siddhartha Mitter DAKAR, Senegal — Despite the rise to prominence ...
Yakima Herald-Republic

African Village nurtured Black culture in the Yakima Valley in the 1970s

A large, round structure east of the main entrance to the Yakima Training Center has no obvious purpose. It stands on private property but isn't a house or a barn. It's closed and quiet and has been ...
Forbes

French Gallerist Cecile Fakhoury On The Contemporary African Art Scene

Abidjan, Dakar and Paris: the Ivory Coast-based art gallery owner Cécile Fakhoury today runs three eponymous spaces in three different world capitals dedicated to artists from the African continent, ...
Observer

Highlights from London’s 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair

In the hullaballoo of London’s Frieze Week, the slick and rather discreet 1-54 contemporary African art fair can slip by unnoticed. Smartly tagging onto the much larger fair without quite stepping out ...