Red Clay Arts

12/21/2018

Staple Crops Update: Winter 2019 – Archiving the Subjective

As we approach the end of 2018, there is much for which to be thankful. I can’t believe it's been 1 year since I was selected to be the Harisios Papamarkou Chair in Education at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress. For these past 12 months my daily operation has been to become intimate w...

09/22/2017

Flicks From California College of the Arts presents Tahir Hemphill / Mapper’s Delight September 5 through October 21, 2017 at the CCA Hubbell Street

California College of the Arts (CCA) presents Tahir Hemphill / Mapper’s Delight September 5 through October 21, 2017 at the CCA Hubbell Street Galleries in San Francisco. This marks the first solo exhibition for the New York-based artist and creative technologist. The exhibition features Hemphill’s…

08/28/2017

Currently I am in SF to install my exhibition at California College of the Arts. I've been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Artworks grant to mount a solo exhibition of art made from the Hip-hop Word Count and to host a Rap Research Lab community data session at California College of the Ar...

08/28/2017

Pull Up.

California College of the Arts Presents Tahir Hemphill: Mapper’s Delight

08/05/2016

STCR Update: Summer 2016 - Bellagio, Italy

06/20/2016

STCR Update Summer 2016: Bury the Lead aka Humblebrag aka TL;DR

05/12/2016

Can One Of You Beautiful Souls Help Us Get Our Knight Foundation Library Challenge Proposal To Khalil G. Muhammad? bit.ly/c21library

Using the Hip-hop Word Count database to re-contextualize the library collection for Hip Hop relevance.

04/06/2016

Creative Capital Mini-Documentary on the Rap Research Lab

Artist Tahir Hemphill created a searchable database using information from over 50,000 hip-hop songs spanning 1979 to the present day--and that's only the be...

02/29/2016

I am happy to finally be able to announce the call for Actual Fact: actualfact.net

Actual Fact is an exhibition of data visualization and critical writing produced with data extracted from rap lyrics.

Through a critical engagement with the production and interpretation of Hiphop data, Actual Fact allows creatives, technologists and cultural critics to set the aesthetic, ethical and intellectual bar for data visualization projects using content from Hiphop culture.

If you write about Hiphop culture through a critical lens or are a creative technologists and would like to collaborate, hit us up.

11/18/2014

Big Up Yourself Tahero!

TEDYouth 2014 took place at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City on Saturday, November 15 from 11am to 6pm ET. At TEDYouth — and the TEDxYouthDay 2014 events happening the same day around the globe — young people gathered to explore the theme: "Worlds Imagined." They heard mind-shifting stories and big ideas in a broad array of topics that impact the world today. They envisioned new scenarios for our future, and thought through how they can contribute to its creation.

11/11/2014

This Saturday November 15th, 2014 Our Colleague Will Be Presenting His Rap Research Lab To 400 Middle & High School Students At TED Youth

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading - through TED.com, our annual conferences, the annual TED Prize and local TEDx events.