Call for submissions.Gordon Parks, Deborah Willis and Chester Higgins Jr., three of America's most-celebrated African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. photographers, have announced an international call for photographs to help launch the new Museum of the African Diaspora The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) is a new museum in San Francisco, California, USA, dedicated to the diasporan histories of people of African origin and their influence and adaptation throughout the world. (MoAD) set to open in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden in the summer of 2005. "We invite photographers around the globe, whether they are. amateurs or professionals, to send us a photo to include in an exciting and unique mosaic at the new museum and thus honor the richness of humanity that has emerged from the African continent," said Parks. Photos will be considered for use in a mosaic rural three stories high. More than 3,000 photographic images are needed for the construction of the mural mural Painting applied to and made integral with the surface of a wall or ceiling. Its roots can be found in the universal desire that led prehistoric peoples to create cave paintings—the desire to decorate their surroundings and express their ideas and beliefs. and entries will be considered until August 31, 2004, 5 P.M., Pacific time. The Museum of the African Diaspora will be housed in the first three floors of a new $200 million St. Regis Hotel in downtown San Francisco, near the city's Museum of Modern Art and the Moscone Convention Center. To donate photos: Go to www.moadsf.org, or mail photos to: Museum of the African Diaspora, 90 New Montgomery Street Montgomery Street is a north-south thoroughfare in San Francisco, California, in the United States. It runs about 16 blocks from the Telegraph Hill neighborhood south through downtown, terminating at Market Street. , San Francisco, CA 94105. Photos will not be returned. Also, Higher Standard Publishers announces its first national search for 101 nonpublished African American and multiethnic mul·ti·eth·nic adj. Of, relating to, or including several ethnic groups. Adj. 1. multiethnic - involving several ethnic groups multi-ethnic Christian authors, beginning September 2004. Topics ranging from church leadership, family, children's books, memoirs, Christian fiction, poetry and historical documentary are among subjects sought. To register for the author search, visit www.101AfricanAmericanAuthors.com. the inside scoop on what's happening in the publishing industry |
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