The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) exhibit Carried Over will run Sept. 9 – Jan. 16th, curated by TK Smith. TK Smith is a curator, writer, and cultural historian. He currently serves as Curator, Arts of Africa and the African Diaspora, Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University. Previously, […]
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April 29, 2025 – AAPHI Faculty Coordinator Dr. Durell Callier took a group of AAPHI Scholars and friends of the program to Baltimore, MD. Here the group got a “behind the scenes” tour of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture. Robert T. Parker, Chief […]
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Denise Burgher, AAPHI program alumna who is currently the senior team leader for curriculum and community engagement at the Colored Conventions Project at the Center for Black Digital Research at Penn State, has helped organize the #Harper200 Nationwide Read-a-thon, which calls readers and communities across the nation to read Frances […]
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AAPHI Scholar TK Smith is at it again! This time he has been named Curator for the 2026 Oregon Contemporary Artists’ Biennial celebration. Read the full article here.
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“Colors of Old College” (Old College Galleries, February 4 – June 4, 2025) and the “Colors, Land and Building: Old College and Delaware (Recitation Hall Gallery, February 17 – March 29, 2025.) This immersive exhibition promises to be a vibrant celebration of the rich history and cultural legacy of Old […]
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Sunday, March 2, 2025, AAPHI Scholar and cultural heritage artist Qiaira Riley will be a featured presenter at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, during their Family Festival: Drawn to Stories. The line up is as follows: Family Festival: Drawn to Stories Sunday, March 2, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Once […]
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Library Company of Philadelphia, in partnership with 1838 Black Metropolis and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania present: Black Philadelphia in the 18th and 19th Centuries Conference Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | February 20th-22nd, 2025 AAPHI Scholar Darby Witek to present on Friday, February 20th: Joining […]
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“The Radical Jackie Ormes” Curated by Britney Henry, PhD Candidate in English & African American Public Humanities Initiative Scholar February 1 – 28, 2025 University of Delaware, Morris Library, First Floor (Room 115) Jackie Ormes is considered the first Black woman cartoonist to reach a national audience, publishing in the Pittsburgh […]
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Join the virtual AAPHI (African American Public Humanities Initiative) Fall 2024 Lecture. Monday, November 4th, 5:00 pm EST with guest speaker Wilson Kwamogi Okello, Ph.D., a transdisciplinary artist and scholar whose work engages Black critical theories to advance research on knowledge production and human development. His current research centers Blackness […]
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AAPHI Scholar Hannah Grantham has been named Director of the Delaware Historical Society’s Jane and Littleton Mitchell Center for African American Heritage. Delaware Historical Society Names New Director of the Jane and Littleton Mitchell Center for African American Heritage
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