NCAnewyork’s Black Arts & Culture USA  TV show visits the Walls of Heritage, Walls of Pride exhibition at the Smithsonian Institute’s Anacostia Museum in Washington, D.C. This fabulous exhibition on African American murals is currently on display and features the work of numerous artists including Georgette Seabrooke Powell (89), one of the few remaining artists of the Black Renaissance and WPA era, Washington, D.C. artist Cheryl Foster (who we also interviewed) and numerous muralists from around the country. The one-hour show will air the first week of September on Time Warner channels 34 (MNN) and 107 (RCN) in Manhattan and a half-hour version will air in Brooklyn on Brooklyn Public Access TV, (B-CAT) channels 34 and 67.

Black Arts & Culture USA (BACUSA) airs in Manhattan on Wednesday evenings at 11 PM and in Brooklyn on Mondays at 5PM.

 Some of the programs will soon be available on DVD including such popular broadcasts as Masters of the Arts: David C. Driskell,   Howardina Pindell; Emma Amos – Columbia University, a Historic Overview of Arts Movements: From Harlem Renaissance to the New Melanian by Kwame Brathwaite, NCA Pres.,(AJASS); Abdullah Aziz, (Weusi Nyumba Ya Sanaa); Akili Ron Anderson (AFRICOBRA); Dindga McCannon (Where We At Black Women Artists); Otto Neals, (Fulton Art Fair); Charlotte Ka (Entitled Black Women Artists) –

Art As An Instrument for Social Change in two parts: Dr. Rosalind Jeffries,NCA Board member/ SVA, Jersey City College;  Elombe Brath, AJASS/Afrikaliedoscope; Adger Cowans, AFRICOBRA; Ademola Olugebefola, Grinnell Gallery; Danny Simmons, Rush Arts Foundation

Danny Simmons – Renaissance Man – On location at the Corridor Gallery home and of Mr. Simmons produced by Kwame Brathwaite, video & editing by Cedric Washington’s CedWorks which was the first regularly scheduled NCA show. Black Arts & Culture USA also covered

individual artists Tafa, Ademola Olugebefola, Otto Neals, James SEPYO Cameron and other well known NCA artists.

 BACUSA also featured Inventing in Color by book artist Ruth Edwards. Some shows are one person features, some cover openings and conferences and some are in magazine format (various subjects on same show). One such show featured The Paul Jones Collection; The International African Arts Festival; Medgar Evers College Tribute To the Ancestors at Coney Island with the late Cheryl Byron’s Something Positive; Philadelphia’s annual Odunde Festival; The Dedicator’s Awards Luncheon & Auction; Tom Feelings Way –the street re-naming for our late departed brother and NCA member Tom Feelings. BASQUIAT at the Brooklyn Museum with commentary by art historian, curator (and Voodun Priestest) Dowoti Desir who delves into the hidden vodun symbolism in Basquiat’s work. Black Arts & Culture also covered important events list the funeral of Ossie Davis and the visit to Harlem by former South African president Nelson Mandela of which ABC TVs Like It Is used 20 minutes of the NCA broadcast for its own one-hour Mandela special.