posts by Kemuel Benyehudah

Kemuel Benyehudah is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. His interests lie in education, culture, and history. Kemuel is a research associate at the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. He worked with the Kislak Center on an exhibition featuring Arthur Tress’s Collection of Japanese illustrated books and prints. He has worked as a research associate with the Mutter Museum's Karabots Junior Fellows Program. He graduated from Hunter College in New York with a bachelor’s degree in sociology, and minor in studio arts.

November 30, 2020 by
Urban Movement Arts (UMA), nourishing Philly House Dance culture and surviving the pandemic

In this new post, Kem gives a brief history of Philly House Dance culture and speaks with Urban Movement Arts, an organization teaching House Dance history and keeping the culture alive through dance education.

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August 7, 2020 by
Reimagine our schools as a school-to-museum pipeline for Black students

In this post, Kemuel Benyehudah denounces the school-to-prison pipeline and presents an alternative that also addresses the underrepresentation of Black students in the creative economy and museums.

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March 13, 2020 by
The Black Arts Curator, activists for representation and decolonization of Western Art Museums

Kemuel Benyehudah weighs in about the importance of the work and activism of Black curators in collecting institutions and the necessary decolonization work being done by local Black curators.

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January 31, 2020 by
The Legacy of Black Collage Practice Endures

Artblog has a new contributor, Kemuel Benyehudah! In his first ever Artblog post, Kemuel pens a thoughtful essay about Black collage artists and the long history of erasure and appropriation of Black art.

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Two panel comic from the Two panel comic from the Artblog comics series "Grand Ballroom of Doom." The first panel of the comic depicts a man during the second week of the pandemic, looking cheerful and carrying a freshly baked loaf of bread. The second panel shows the same man during the second year of the pandemic. He looks older and more worn out. He sits in an empty, dark room with only scarce sunshine coming in between the dawn blinds. His back is again the wall and he clothes his legs while he holds a beer can. There are more empty beer cans surrounding him.
 
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