The theme for this year's Black History Month is: BLACK JOY! For the students of the Black History Month planning committee, Black Joy means "focusing on the successes and accomplishments of Black people of all backgrounds. Despite the hardships we’ve faced and still are facing we continue to rise. We are leaders, scientists, doctors, innovators, entertainers, and so much more. Black Joy is capturing the wins of our people and celebrating them despite us living in a world where it is not expected of us to do amazing things. Black Joy is beating the odds continuously in a world that was in theory not made for us. We celebrate Black Joy because nobody has us like we have each other therefore we must rise and show the world what we can do. Black Joy shows that as Black people, despite the trauma our people have experienced, we are proud to be who we are. No matter where we come from or what we identify as we are one and we are happy to be Black."

Details on Call to Art:
We want to give students the opportunity to participate in this celebration of Black Joy in the form of artistic expression. Send in your stuff!! We are ACCEPTING ALL: vocal, instrumental, and dance performances, visual/studio art, digital art, photography, any form of poetry; you basically have free rein!! show us what you got! We will collaborate with the student artists as much or as little as they want in order to make the engagement with the art meaningful and relevant to the artists’ work.

-Submission DEADLINE is February 14th at 11:59pm!
-Gallery Exhibit and Performance date is Friday, February 18th, time TBA.