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02/11/98 WED 14:20 FAX 757 727 5170

Floyd Thomas has sent representative works from the Art of the Civil Rights/Black Protest Movements collection of the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center and is writing a brief piece on how the collection came to be. Works to be shown" Reginald Gammon's Freedom Now 1963, Claude Clark's Polarization 1969, Valerie Maynard's Black Angel and Strange Fruit, Willis Bing Davis' Ghetto Voice 1967, Tom Feeling's School Integration, and Dana Chandler's Noddin Our Liberation Away.

A.B. Spellman poem: I do not have. Jeff please inquire about its status

Jeff Overview: due by Feb. 25. Jeff also pull and send visuals to accompany your article, asap. I still have Aunt Jemima-doughboy photo
Harold Pates and Lisa Farrington: Submissions are not up to standard. I will write to them explaining our editorial guidelines and encouraging further discussion on what they might do in order to submit articles for a future issue or the book*.

*an expanded issue would make a great book with sales potential independent of the journal but production funds are very tight. I think our best option is to work on getting funding for a book that would be based on the journal contents but would even have a more developed concept and contents (eg. perhaps separate sections on the early phase, mid-phase and consequences of the '60s-'70s black visual arts movement, and sections for topical areas: pan-African efforts, women artists organizing, grassroots community arts, the response of the older generation of artists, theory, chronology, bibliography, etc. [[the rest of the worlds from this point are bold]] The issues of the journal could be used as the basis of a book proposal. [[ the rest of the words from this point are also underlined]] I think we should go directly to a publisher with the idea and seek an advance for the additional work to produce the book.