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  Eight Seconds Juneteenth Rodeo Announced in Portland, Oregon

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월요일, 4월 24, 2023

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  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230424005217/en/
    Ivan McClellan, Portland-based photojournalist, just announced the Eight Seconds Juneteenth Rodeo, which will host 2,500 attendees at the Expo Center in Portland, Oregon on June 17, 2023.
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    McClellan created the Eight Seconds project in 2015 to showcase his photos and stories of Black rodeo athletes and culture across the U.S.
  • The Eight Seconds rodeo will be an inclusive educational and entertaining event that uses lighting, music, and top western athletes to create a fresh rodeo platform.
  • The Eight Seconds Juneteenth Rodeo is talking to a number of potential sponsors, and those interested can learn more and reach out through 8secondsrodeo.com .

TMA Names Kristopher Driggers Assistant Curator, Schmidt Curator of Latin American Art

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목요일, 1월 31, 2019

TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 31, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tucson Museum of Art (TMA) announces the appointment of Kristopher Driggers as TMA's Assistant Curator, Bernard and Jeanette Schmidt Curator of Latin American Art.

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  • TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 31, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tucson Museum of Art (TMA) announces the appointment of Kristopher Driggers as TMA's Assistant Curator, Bernard and Jeanette Schmidt Curator of Latin American Art.
  • Currently, a lecturer at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, the nation's second-largest Hispanic-serving Institution, Driggers will finish his semester of teaching and join TMA full time in early May to manage and develop TMA's Latin American, Spanish Colonial, post-Colonial, and Latin American folk art collections, with emphasis on pre-Columbian art.
  • Driggers, who obtained his bachelor's degree in History of Art from Yale University in 2011 and his master's degree in Art History from the University of Chicago in 2014, expects to obtain his Ph.D. in Art History, Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art from the University of Chicago in May.
  • The museum features permanent and traveling exhibitions of Modern and Contemporary, Native American, American West, Latin American, pre-Columbian, European, and Asian art.