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Scholar and author. History of photography in West Africa.
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Remembering my mother on her birthday. Ruth E. Smith Hickling

Polish painter Anna Bilinska, Self-portrait with apron and brushes, 1887 #womensart

ΛRT HΞΛVΞN: Happy birthday to Black American & Mexican artist & sculptor Elizabeth Catlett (April 15, 1915 – April 2, 2012) ❝Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people.❞

Anna Brown Ehlers, master Chilkat weaver from the Pacific Northwest Coast #WomensArt

Cat, by US artist Sue Beatrice who creates steampunk style sculptures and jewellery out of old watch parts #womensart

How academics imagine their lives would look like if they decide to work in tech

UK artist Jane Perkins creates artworks by #recycling found and waste materials such as plastic toys, beads, buttons and shells #WomensArt

foxunga, pl.n: foxlike wiles, tricks. (FAWK-sung-ga / ˈfɔk-sʌŋ-ga) Image: Ormesby Psalter; England (East Anglia), 1250-1330; @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Douce 366, f. 89r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

#UnJourUnePhoto #photoApril 10 avril #fmspad #ExpositionStephenJones #PalaisGalliéra Dentelle

Perspective changes everything. [Ars Mathermatica]

Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival 📍Portland, Oregon 🇺🇲

The Art Nouveau embroidery of Ann Macbeth (1875 - 1948), Scottish artist and member of artistic group known as the Glasgow Girls #WomensArt

Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as a Lute Player, 1616 #womensart

Visited an old friend in Lincoln Park yesterday.

US artist Nikki Root recycles vintage and modern bottles and glassware to create stained glass windows #WomensArt

Pedestrians zone... Zona de vianants... #photography #fotografia #streetphoto #streetphotography #photographers #documentary #streetpeople #people #leica #leicaq3 Figueres, Girona

#UnJourUnePhoto #photoApril 10 avril #fmspad #Séville #Andalousie #Espagne #FerForgé Dentelle (de fer forgé)

3-year-old girl dies from H5N1 bird flu in Mexico’s first human case bnonews.com/index.php/20...

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Rouen, France 🇫🇷

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Archiver or time waster...sometimes it’s hard to tell.

Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, The Blue Scarf, 1930 #WomensArt

Contemporary English painter Emma Haworth, known for her parks and semi urban landscapes with an added hint of magic #womensart #Spring

Harebells, 2017 by Evi Tihemets, Estonian printmaker #WomensArt #April

"Dakar, métamorphose d'une capitale" Carole Diop, Xavier Ricou (Éditions de l'Aube) #Dakar: genèse et legs d’un patrimoine métis à travers la mémoire des habitants, le portrait des figures qui ont façonné la ville et la mise en valeur de ses bâtiments emblématiques www.au-senegal.com/dakar-metamo...

« Dakar, métamorphoses d’une capitale », de Carole Diop et Xavier Ricou : péril en la demeure dakaroise #Afropages https://twp.ai/1OADld

[1/5] L’architecte Carole Diop, coautrice avec Xavier Ricou de #Dakar, métamorphoses d’une capitale (Éd. de l’Aube), retrace l’histoire urbaine de Dakar, entre patrimoine lébou effacé, explosion démographique, et crise du logement dans une ville presqu’île en surchauffe. #geography #urbanization

👒Two cabinet card photos taken by Karl Blumenthal at his studio #Wildbad #Germany 👒 Good to have 2 of the same lady, were the couple just married? She’s wearing a lovely stylish suit & is showing her ring to camera? They both look so serious😊👒 #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

Sitting on a rock.

This chap is looking all smart & dandy, a wedding guest or maybe he’s the groom?🤔💒 Taken at the studio of Photographers C Turner, 83 Castle Street #Salisbury #Wiltshire #OldPhotos #FamilyHistory

France begins handover of military bases to Senegal

#VendrediLecture 🔹 Dakar, métamorphoses d'une capitale / Carole Diop et Xavier Ricou #dakar #senegal #ouvrages

At the @signetlibrary.bsky.social today, this 1903 copy of ‘Glasgow and Lanarkshire Illustrated’, published by the Hamilton Herald, New Brunswick. ‘Come for the advertising, stay for the advertising’

Grandma’s Acadian Fricot with Dumplings #NovaScotia #TasteOfNovaScotia tasteofnovascotia.com/recipes/gran...

Tea and books 2' by Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt

Stroller parking is free.

apnews.com/article/trum... Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with 'improper ideology' Guess what he’s likely to find ‘improper ideology’?

UK contemporary sculptor known as Anna & the Willow creates nature-inspired sculptures made from rods of willow #womensart

N.S. education minister says schools expected to fly diverse flags #NovaScotia South Shore Centre for Education ordered schools to take down LGBTQ+, Mi'kmaw, African Nova Scotian flags - thankfully the Education Minister ordered them to be put back up www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The village of Oak Park, Illinois, where #BettyWhite was born in 1922, doesn't have a Bluesky account, so here is a screenshot from their Twitter post and a link to Friday's ceremony there honoring Betty and the U.S. postage stamp. #GoldenGirls #BettyWhiteStamp www.oak-park.us/Events-direc...

Soil blocking is a way to grow seedlings without plastic or peat pots. It's cheap, eco-friendly, & great for small spaces. Gardeners love it for helping the planet & becoming more self-sufficient. tinyurl.com/msmbedw8 #SoilBlocking #GardeningTips #EcoFriendly #ClimateHope

Lindy Hop Contest, Savoy Ballroom 1953, Harlem NY #photography #blacksky #blackandwhite #history #Harlem #dancing

I believe this is #theSilva #ship #sail #harbour #halifax #halifaxns #hfx #boat #canadasky #travel #tourism #cities #maritimes

Inuk artist Pudlo Pudlat’s ‘airplane.’ Emily Laurent Henderson, the McMichael’s curator of Indigenous art and culture identifies many of the drawings in the just opened McMichael’s exhibit ‘Worlds of Paper: Drawings from Kinngait’ a “form of Inuit futurism.” apple.news/AmC9-tLfhTby...

Always a floor, sometimes more, Rosehill Cemetery is always impressive.

A pear tree planted in the 1630s by Gov. John Endecott, in Salem, MA has survived storms...and time to become the oldest living cultivated fruit tree in America. In 1809...it even sent pears to John Adams. It's still alive and bearing fruit today. Yeah... 2 pieces of political trivia. 🔥

Here are some nice mushrooms