Arts
Vocabulary
Local Connection
Artists
Black History
Final Jeopardy
100
This form of art was birthed in Black and Latino neighborhoods as a form of protest and is characterized by any visual art created in public locations, especially unsanctioned artwork.
What is Street Art?
100
This is the term for the mass movement of millions of African Americans from the south to the west and north from the 1920’s through the 1960’s.
What is the Great Migration?
100
Actor that was raised in the South Wedge neighborhood of Rochester, acclaimed for his role in the Broadway musical Rent, and who made his acting debut in How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
Who is Taye Diggs?
100
This famous poet made history in 2017 when she became the first ever National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, and again made history in 2021 when she read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Biden’s inauguration in 2021.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
100
The number of the amendment to the US Constitution that outlawed slavery and is the name of a documentary by Ava DuVernay
What is 13th?
100
This sculpture, made by Jen Reid in 2020, is a black resin sculptured depicting Reid, a black female protester. Its name is “A Surge of _____”.
What is Power?
200
DAILY DOUBLE
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200
Two-word term for poetry that "demonstrates jazz-like rhythm or the feel of improvisation" and also as poetry that takes jazz music, musicians, or the jazz milieu as its subject. Langston Hughes and Boby Johnson are some poets of this genre.
What is Jazz Poetry?
200
This Rochester street artist and activist led the painting of a mural that was featured in an HBO documentary on Frederick Douglass
Who is Shawn Dunwoody?
200
This famous singer and piano player was the first Black man to host a nationally broadcasted television show with his namesake on November 5, 1956 on NBC.
Who is Nat King Cole?
200
Organization founded in 1915 by Carter G. Woodson, which selects the Black History Month theme.
What is the Association for the Study of African American Life & History?
200
Winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature, author of Beloved (1987)
Who is Toni Morrison?
300
Black activist, author and academic depicted in this art piece (NOT the artist of this work) that includes their quotation “I have given my life in the struggle. If I have to lose my life, that is the way it will be.”
Who is Angela Davis?
300
This three-word term is defined as a significant cultural and artistic movement in the United States during the 1960s, with the desire to create a distinct artistic voice for African Americans by celebrating Black culture, identity, and history through activism, literature, music, performing arts, and visual arts.
What is the Black Arts Movement?
300
In its heyday this club was the center of the Jazz scene along Clarissa street in Rochester
What is Pythodd Room?
300
Bobby Johnson (1929-2022), a prolific poet and writer was known as the “____ of Clarissa Street”
What is Bard?
300
Documentary film by Carvin Eison about the uprising and unrest in Rochester in the 1960’s
What is July’64?
400
Name this famous poem, written by Langston Hughes.
What is Harlem?
400
A type of dance whose name came from the prize competition winners would receive, and likely originated as parody of the dance forms of White slave owners, becoming an act of both Black resistance and joy.
What is the Cakewalk dance?
400
Name of a collective of Black artists in Rochester
What is Black Arts Council OR the 9th Floor Collective?
400
DAILY DOUBLE (again)
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400
Woman who escaped slavery and later moved to Rochester around 1850, writing a book about her childhood experiences while becoming active in the abolitionist movement.
Who is Harriet Jacobs?
500
Garth Fagan, a pioneer in contemporary dance, is specifically celebrated in the Musical/Broadway world for his work on this Broadway Musical.
What is The Lion King?
500
This term, pulled from last year’s Black History Month learnings, defined as the practice of working toward the reform of institutions, behaviors, relations, and expectations in society.
What is Social Activism?
500
A two-week celebration of the performance arts recently held by the Avenue Blackbox Theatre, a Black-owned performing arts space created to uplift artists of color, youth, LGBTQ_ and other BIPOC creatives
What is The Bronze Collective Theatre Festival?
500
In 1919, this man became the first Black man to write, produce, and direct a feature film. The film he created was “The Homesteader”.
Who is Oscar Micheaux?
500
A network of performance venues located mostly in the South that were safe and acceptable places for African American musicians and entertainers to perform during Jim Crow.
What is the “Chitlin’ Circuit?”
500
During the Great Migration, the large majority of African Americans arriving to Rochester were limited to settling in the 3rd and 7th Wards.
This street was the “Black Wall Street” of Rochester in the 3rd Ward, and this one with mostly White-owned businesses in the 7th Ward was at the center of the uprising and unrest depicted in Carvin Eison’s documentary.
Question should be in the form of:
What is ______ and _______?
What are Clarissa Street and Joseph Avenue?