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workshops. Under the directorships of Aziz and DuVall, a special Weusi printmaking workshop for community artists was started. During summer, the academy produced and sponsored the famous annual Harlem
Outdoor Art Festival at St. Nicholas Park, where at least ten blocks of sidewalk fencing was licensed and reserved from the New York Parks Department for it. This special event drew artists and spectators countrywide. Eventually, dance concerts, live jazz shows, and professional drumming concerts became integral to the celebration. The exhibition continued for fourteen years, demonstrating the longevity of community involvement and support; it paved the way for “Harlem Week,” a major celebration of the Black community held to this day.
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In the early 1970s, the Weusi Nyumba Ya Sanaa
Gallery was expanded and renamed the Weusi Nyumba Ya Sanaa Academy of Fine Arts and Studies. This development elevated the facility to a fully comprehensive educational institution servicing the community. Tours and lectures were available, as well as art
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cultural and historical experience. In embracing the self-determination concept of the 1960s, Black artists were charged with charting their ideological direction and aesthetic principles. In that spirit, a coalition of more than 50 artists, called
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