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"Self-portrait" by Erma Gordon (American) - Casein paint on canvas / 1967 - University Museum at Texas Southern University (Houston) #WomenInArt #art #artText #BlueskyArt #ErmaGordon #UniversityMuseum #TexasSouthernUniversity #WomensArt #WomenArtists #WomanArtist #SelfPortrait #HBCUArt #BlackArt
This painting shows three overlapping views of a Black woman with medium-brown skin and dark, wavy hair, framed inside a softly brushed circular field. At the center, she faces us, brown eyes steady, her crossed hands resting just below her chin. To the right, a profile version of herself looks out, lips gently closed; to the left, another profile bows her head with one hand partially covering it. A sheer, pale cloth wraps their shoulders and hair, its gauze-like folds sweeping in arcs across the surface. Within this veil, to the right side as if uplifted in the palm of her hands are two brown-skinned boys moving through a small patch of ground and sky with one poised mid-run and the other leaping with arms flung wide as he grasps the trailing fabric. Swirling strokes of muted teal, earth brown, and cream fill the background, evoking air, water, and continuous motion. Painted in 1967 within Texas Southern University’s influential HBCU art program, Gordon’s casein self-portrait turns a student exercise into a statement of purpose. The three views of herself can be read as states of being: alert and present, inward and reflective, weary and guarded. The shared veil, a motif she also uses in her mural work, binds these selves together like a protective net that stretches outward to include the boys in the background, whose running and leaping bodies evoke children, students, or younger kin whose futures she seems to cradle. The swirling atmosphere and round format suggest a world in motion, while the central gaze stays steady, insisting on the dignity and complexity of a young Black woman artist shaping her own image within an HBCU context and in the permanent collection of the University Museum at Texas Southern University.
December 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
mdstamper.bsky.social
“Self-portrait” by Johnetta Tinker (American) - Oil on canvas / c. 1970 - University Museum, Texas Southern University (Houston) #WomenInArt #JohnettaTinker #Tinker #SelfPortrait #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #art #artText #BlackArt #AfricanAmericanArt #BlueskyArt #TexasSouthernUniversity
Painted around 1970 while Johnetta Tinker was an art student at Texas Southern University, this self-portrait reflects an HBCU studio culture that insisted Black life belonged at the center of art. In a program shaped by muralist John Biggers, Tinker studied African and African American aesthetics, spiritual symbolism, and the idea that artists are accountable to their communities. The young Black woman is shown from the chest up, facing us head-on against a hot orange-red background. Her rich brown skin catches light along the forehead, nose, cheeks, and collarbones, so her face almost glows against the darker paint. Large, tightly textured afro hair fills the top of the canvas, ringed by a soft yellow halo that turns the hairstyle into a radiant crown. Her dark, almond-shaped eyes hold a steady, unblinking gaze while full lips close in a calm and confident expression. A golden, patterned cloth is wrapped diagonally across her body, leaving one shoulder bare and falling in heavy folds that are thick with paint. The lower background deepens toward brown and maroon, while the top edge is streaked and smoky, framing the figure like rising heat. Her haloed afro links her image to Black Power style and to sacred icons, suggesting that a young Black woman’s presence is both contemporary and holy, political and intimate at once. The draped gold cloth hints at West African textiles snd the robes of saints, quietly crowning an HBCU student with dignity and quiet authority. As the work entered the University Museum’s collection, it joined a broader visual history of TSU students imagining themselves into the future. Tinker would later become known for layered prints and murals about memory, violence, and Black resilience. Here, we see an early, steady claim to visibility and worth that underlies that later work.
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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As I type I hear that there’s ANOTHER #SchoolShooting; @UMassBoston.bsky.social.
September 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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The Bullard Center’s August newsletter is out now! Get the latest updates on our work, community news, and what’s ahead.

Read it here: ow.ly/imht50WGJIv

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#TexasSouthernUniversity #HBCUBuzz #EnvironmentalJustice #HBCUEJCC2025 #TSUProud
August 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
heybandwagon.bsky.social
New episode is live!

#BandWagon #podcast #ChrisSirard #colorguard #UMassMarchingBand #EESmithHS #RooseveltPrattJr #Beyonce #TexasSouthernUniversity #BradRogers #WNBA #CaitlinClark #KateMartin #NewRachel #DMA #NEBDI

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Episode 65: "At Long Last, Guard" | BandWagon
SHOW NOTES Episode 065 • July 21, 2025     INTRODUCTION   Topic: Life as an NEBDI exhibitor   www.nhbda.org/new-england-band-directors-institute     FIRST STRAIN   News ‘n’ Notes:   • E.E. Smith band ...
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July 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
heybandwagon.bsky.social
New episode drops Monday morning!
#BandWagon #podcast #ChrisSirard #colorguard #UMassMarchingBand #EESmithHS #RooseveltPrattJr #Beyonce #TexasSouthernUniversity #BradRogers #WNBA #CaitlinClark #KateMartin #NewRachel #DMA #NEBDI
July 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Sweatt v. Painter (1950) was the Texas civil rights case that helped desegregate the U.S. education system nationwide. In This Texas Tea, producer Shardae White tells you how. #Texas #historytok #utaustin #texassouthernuniversity #blackhistorymonth #scotus
July 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Source: @blavity.bsky.social #blavity #blackdiasporanews #texassouthernuniversity #blacksky #hbcu #beyonce #beyhive
July 2, 2025 at 8:59 AM
stadiumvagabond.bsky.social
Stadiums of Houston Cougars:

Roberson Stadium 2002 - Opened 1942 - Demo’d 2012 - Capacity 32,413 - Also former home of the Oilers (AFL), Texas Southern Tigers & Dynamo (MLS)

TDECU Stadium 2018 - Opened on the same site in 2014 - Capacity 40,000

#houston #houstoncougars #texassouthernuniversity
May 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
bobbordone.bsky.social
Last weekend, I had the honor of speaking to faculty, students, staff, and community members @TexasSouthernUniversity about #conflictresilience It was such an honor to meet students committed to peacebuilding & dialogue across lines of difference.
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May 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
killmaso.bsky.social
CONGRATULATIONS TO MY #HBCU #TexasSouthernUniversity #DebateTeam #WORLDCHAMPIONS ✊🏽
March 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
okoyessmile.bsky.social
Was this #TSU #TexasSouthernUniversity ’s marching band? Whose #HBCU band did Bey borrow for this performance? #Beyonce
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THIS A REMINDER….THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER! #BEYHIVE
December 26, 2024 at 3:36 AM
thedwchronicles.bsky.social
Title:Gay Superheroes-Barbara Jordan-Sept. 13,14, 2021
#lawyer #educator #democrat #politican #advocateforhealth #lesbian #portrait #colorpencils #drawingonpaper #pencildrawing #originalconcept #freehand #TexasSouthernUniversity #surgeongeneral #one-dimensional #formedstructure
Barbara Jordan-was an American lawyer, educator, and politician. A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, the first Southern African-American and she was the surgeon general of healthcare for a time.
December 6, 2024 at 4:33 PM
amirbeshay.bsky.social
University shootings are now occurring twice a day in the US?! #TexasSouthernUniversity and #NorthernArizonaUniversity today... #GunControl
November 19, 2024 at 7:04 AM