No. 6

Complementing the artist’s various public works throughout the city, her family-run estate's forthcoming gallery comes on the centenary of the artist's birth year.

Lots to share from a week in Detroit coming up.

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Things to read, to watch, resources and more

Weekly Notes Week of March 15 – 21, 2026

This is going to be a short weekly list - a fuller one next week!

Friday March 6, 2026

The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.

The Equal Justice Initiative’s historical sites in Montgomery, Alabama, show what’s possible when history isn’t subject to federal funding cuts or executive orders.

ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months

24K likes, 331 comments - ajplus on November 26, 2025: "This is how a group of Indigenous artists staged an unsanctioned exhibit in one of the most famous U.S. museums – and no one can shut it down. ...

Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.

#Repost @crafthouston with @use.repost・・・“How Do Craft Museums Make History?” Lecture by Namita Gupta Wiggers, 10/25, 3-4PM!Houston Center for Contemporary Craft presents a lecture by eminent craft scholar Namita Gupta Wiggers (@namitapdx), offering insights from her forthcoming book, “Which Craft? How Craft Exhibitions Make History.” Drawing on her years as Director and Chief Curator at Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon and research conducted as a Smithsonian American Art Museum Institution Senior Fellow, Wiggers examines two decades of curatorial practice, institutional shifts, and the exhibitions that have shaped the field of contemporary craft in the United States.To learn more, visit our website or check out the link in our bio @crafthouston #craftscape #whichcraft #thisiscraft #criticalcraftforum

“How Do Craft Museums Make History?” Lecture by Namita Gupta Wiggers, 10/25, 3-4PM!Houston Center for Contemporary Craft presents a lecture by eminent craft scholar Namita Gupta Wiggers (@namitapdx), offering insights from her forthcoming book, “Which Craft? How Craft Exhibitions Make History.” Drawing on her years as Director and Chief Curator at Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon and research conducted as a Smithsonian American Art Museum Institution Senior Fellow, Wiggers examines two decades of curatorial practice, institutional shifts, and the exhibitions that have shaped the field of contemporary craft in the United States.To learn more, visit our website or check out the link in our bio!📸Image credit: Namita Gupta Wiggers, 2023. Via NamitaWiggers.com.

What Chicago needed was a social autopsy, a study of the institutions and relationships that permitted this catastrophe.

An excerpt from Dismantling the Master's Clock by Rasheedah Phillips Juneteenth [is] widely celebrated as Freedom Day. The day commemorates June 19, 1865, when thousands of enslaved Africans held capt...

Marking time and place in my kitchen

We are proud of President Huerta’s righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement…