Harriet Tubman “The Moses of Her People”
by: Wilfred Stroud A musician, storyteller/oral historian, the traditional Griot was the product, or rather the embodiment of West African oral traditions. A native of Macon, Georgia, Wilfred R. Stroud …
African american art
By Richard J. Powell Many artists whose careers extended back to the 1930s and 1940s resurfaced with a renewed sense of racial solidarity and political insurgency during the Black Arts …
Art: My Castle on the Nile at the Main Public Library
By Steve Rosen CityBeat On Friday, the main Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton (800 Vine St., Downtown) gets its 2011 exhibition season underway with My Castle on the Nile: …
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Why African-American Art Is So Hot
By Adams Susan, Hanging in Robert Johnson’s den is an oil from the 1930s by an African-American artist named Palmer Hayden. The painting depicts a black American businessman getting his …
Lee questions racial stereotypes
by Lingxi ChenyangAudiences won’t know whether to laugh or cringe during experimental playwright Young Jean Lee’s “The Shipment,” a hilarious and irreverent play that will challenge audience members’ stereotypes of …
Ohio Wesleyan Receives Six Original Winfred Rembert Artworks
Amazing Grace” by Winfred Rembert. DELAWARE, OH – Three Ohio Wesleyan University graduates are gifting the school’s Richard M. Ross Art Museum with six original artworks by African American folk …
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Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at the public library
Contributed By: Emily Baute This January, the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County will honor the life and the dream of America’s greatest champion of racial justice, Dr. Martin …
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HORACE PIPPIN Painter (1888-1946)
Horace Pippin, a self-made creative artist, was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in the year of 1888. His early boyhood was spent in Goshen, New York, where his father was …
GREAT DEPRESSION OF 1929 – THE WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION WPA
The GREAT DEPRESSION OF 1929 brought to the ARTS a slow demise of artistic backings such as the HARMON FOUNDATION. Even though the FOUNDATION ended its support in 1967, the …
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America’s first African American Astronaut Candidate & Visual Artist
A man whose resume reads: former Air Force Test Pilot, America’s first African American Astronaut Candidate, Computer Systems Engineer, Aviation Consultant, restauranteur, real estate developer, and construction entrepreneur can best …
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Alan Dean is an admired African American artist
I respect the artists involved in abstract art, but personally, I prefer topresent life without distortion,” says Alan Dean. “Along with aesthetics, Iwould rather have a message, too.” Alan Dean …
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Market Day by Alan Dean
$3500 Alan’s most recent works of art were produced while traveling to several of the Caribbean Islands. Born July 15, 1953 in Baltimore, Maryland, Alan started drawing around the age …
Artist’s stature rises over century
Christ appears as a blurry form in Tanner’s “The Disciples See Christ Walking on the Water.” IMAGES COURTESY OF THE DES MOINES ART CENTER Artist’s stature rises over century by …
Chocolatecity.cc Interviews Painter Dana Todd
Born and raised in Chicago, IL., Dana struck the artistic nerve early on. Having never taken a single painting lesson, her gifts, she proclaims, are a testament from God that …
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ChocolateCity.cc Interviews contemporary artist Daria Amerik
By: Charles Mombo on Twitter @CharlesSMombo, www.ChocolateCity.cc on Twitter @burnedbrass The Academy Award does not have an award category for, “Artist who brings diversity to the Arts.” If they did …
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