Museum of Colour

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To apply please send the following information to [email protected] by 23/02/26:
- Your CV and/or portfolio
- A cover letter
- An example of your art

Test Card will celebrate the under-acknowledged people of colour who have shaped British heritage through television.
#Art

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📢 We’re looking for 3 portrait artists for our next exhibition Test Card (launching July 2026).
-10 portraits each
-Celebrating people of colour who shaped British TV
-Paid opportunity

•2–4 years into practice
•Interest in history
•Reliable

Apply by 23 Feb
#JobOpportunity

[in charge of the girls @AmeriKraut]

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
https://t.co/T3IWgoqRqE

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

‘’Still I Rise”

—Maya Angelou

[Museum of Colour @MuseumofColour]

What beautiful, wise words. We are so sad for those who knew and loved her. This year we are working on television and acutely aware that the industry needed her. May she rest in power and continue to guide from the other side. 🤎✊🏾

[Ronke Lawal @ronkelawal]

Words by Danielle Scott-Haughton💗

Rest in perfect peace sweet Dani.
Rise in glory my friend.

💓

[The Art Of Dialogue @ArtOfDialogue_]

Denzel Washington gives Delroy Lindo his flowers, & Delroy Lindo tells the story for the first time in front of Denzel Washington about how Denzel stopped him from leaving New York when they were young actors, during a candid Sinners Q&A hosted by Denzel.

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We are recruiting a Communications Manager (Dec 2025–Apr 2026, Hybrid, £2,000 per month).

Help develop our next exhibition - Test Card (celebrating people of colour who have shaped British Television).

Deadline: Monday 1 December, 5pm

https://t.co/RmWaqyJK37

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Ready to apply?
Please send us your CV with a referee and a covering letter that shows how you meet the spec.

[Museum of Colour @MuseumofColour]

We’re looking for an experienced Communications Manager and Project Researcher(Freelance/Contract) to join our team for our next major exhibition – Test Card.
Television from a different perspective.

#jobopportunity #marketingnow #expansion #supportthearts

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Any questions please reach out to our project manager Emily Crouch - [email protected]

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We’re still looking for people to share their thoughts and take part in our research.

Have a few minutes?
Complete our short survey + be entered into a £40 gift card draw! 💳

Your views will help shape the future of the Museum of Colour 🎨

https://t.co/GiORhN9cvB

#Reserarch

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‘She put food on all our tables’: Yvonne Brewster, a giant of Black theatre remembered https://t.co/xTmrGP5NUf

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We’re planning the next steps for Museum of Colour and want your input!

Take our short survey for a chance to win a £40 gift card + receive £40 if selected for our upcoming online research roundtables.

👉https://t.co/GiORhN9Kl9

#MuseumOfColour #Community #Heritage #Arts

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INVITE: Keeping it Real Quiz Night

Fri 19 Sept 2025 | 5.30pm
Fairfield House, Bath
Free: https://t.co/KyJCSyuTFr
Quiz + Prizes + VR + Caribbean food!

Celebrate 20 writers of colour whose ideas reshaped British thinking.
Form a team (up to 5) or join one on the night.
#QuizNight

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Trinidad-born historian, novelist and biographer Ron Ramdin, 18th century abolitionist Ottobah Cugoano & pioneering Indian political leader and economic thinker Dadabhai Naoroji, painted by artist Naomi Shewa🎨, will hang in The Holburne @Holburne until Wednesday 17th of Sep 25.

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🎨Shannon Bono's portraits of journalist and activist Claudia Vera Jones, Palestinian-born physician, academic and writer Dr Ghada Karmi and freedom-fighter and abolitionist Ellen Craft will be shown
at Victoria Art Gallery @VictoriaArtBath until Wednesday 17th of September 2025.

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Introducing the artists behind Keeping it Real 🎨:
@NaomiShewa & @bonosart

Naomi blends space & emotion through visual storytelling.

Shannon paints Black womanhood with afrofemcentrist power.

See their work @Holburne + @VictoriaArtBath till September 17th.
#KeepingItReal20

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Meet the curators of Keeping it Real:

Samenua Sesher, Director of @MuseumofColour

Joy Francis (@MsJoyFrancis), Exec Director of @WordsofColour

Celebrating the legacy & power of non-fiction by Global Majority voices.

#KeepingItReal20 #PowerOfWords #HowAreYouKeepingItReal

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🚨 Our Summer Exhibition is live!

Keeping it Real celebrates 20 under-recognised non-fiction writers of colour who have challenged British attitudes over 250 years.

Curated by Samenua Sesher & Joy Francis @msjoyfrancis

#KeepingItReal20 #PowerOfWords #HowAreYouKeepingItReal

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We’ve been busy planning. More to come soon….