Artblog | Janyce Denise Glasper

June 3, 2021 by Janyce Denise Glasper

Incarcerated creatives voice urgent truths in ‘128-G: Art and Writing from a California State Prison’

Artblog contributor Janyce Denise Glasper reviews the book “128-G” — a collection of photos, paintings, letters, writings and more, from incarcerated men in Calipatria State Prison, Southern California. Janyce says the book is poignant, inspiring, and articulates urgent truths about structural inequality. Book purchase details in this post!

May 28, 2021 by Janyce Denise Glasper

Pandemic conversation, Imani Roach and Janyce Denise Glasper talk about art, life, flowers

Two Artblog favorites, Janyce Denise Glasper, writer, artist and Artblog contributor, and Imani Roach, artist, educator, Vox Populi member and former Artblog Managing Editor, spend some time on Zoom catching up during the pandemic’s Winter surge. Enjoy this time capsule of our lives back in February, 2021.

December 7, 2019 by Janyce Denise Glasper

Black Women Make Art

Janyce Denise Glasper recently spoke at the Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium (PASC), and you can read what she had to say here on Artblog!

September 19, 2019 by Janyce Denise Glasper

Arts of Global Africa at the Newark Museum, excellent contemporary art by artists of the African Diaspora

Janyce Denise Glasper sees an exhibit at the Newark Museum that showcases the excellence of art made by contemporary artists of the African diaspora.

June 16, 2019 by Janyce Denise Glasper

Vital works by Augusta Savage, Harlem Renaissance hero, at New York Historical Society

Janyce Denise Glasper visits “Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman” at the New York Historical Society and experiences why this important female figure of the Harlem Renaissance is a hero to herself and others.

May 5, 2019 by Janyce Denise Glasper

Influenced by Wyeth, Mario Andres Robinson’s powerful portraits of people of color

Janyce Denise Glasper visits The Florence Academy in Jersey City, NJ, for a powerful exhibit of watercolor portraits by Mario Andres Robinson.

April 3, 2019 by Janyce Denise Glasper

‘Olympia’ Gives The Most Voiceless Visual Artists a Platform to Stand On

Janyce Glasper sees an insightful movie that deals with issues of post-graduate artists trying to make a go of it in the world today. “Olympia” screened at Lightbox Film Center as part of the Fifth Annual Philadelphia Women’s Film Festival.

March 15, 2019 by Janyce Denise Glasper

Culinary meets literature in Our Mothers’ Kitchens

Janyce Denise Glasper speaks with Shivon Pearl Love and Khaliah D. Pitts, founders of Our Mothers’ Kitchens, a culinary/ literature project created by and for black people. Check out this interview to learn more about the project, which celebrates four black women authors, and its accompanying Summer Camp for Black girls!