We've noted a trio of art-related opportunities for the wordsmiths among us:
Black Arts Quarterly is calling for papers on the subject of "Innovations and Imitations: Exchanges in Black Popular Culture." This issue is being undertaken as a tribute to Professor Kennell A. Jackson who, as a historian, had always wanted to co-edit a volume on Black popular culture. BAQ adds, however, that this is only a suggested topic and they will consider other topics. Deadline 16 October.
Our friends over at UT, Meta DuEwa Jones and Cherise Smith are editing the 30th anniversary special issue of Callaloo on Callaloo Visual Culture and Collaboration. Sure, it's an issue on visual culture, but more specifically the editors are inviting writers to address specifically visual culture as it has manifested in the pages and covers of Callaloo itself over the years. It's a post-modern world, kids--get used to it. Deadline 1 November.
Speaking of Callaloo, they are also seeking "formalist and interdisciplinary submissions" that examine the life, career, and work of renaissance woman Barbara Chase-Riboud. Abstracts are due 1 June 2007.
