FOCUS GROUP: Four Walls, Four Five Women
Presented by Black Artists of DC (BADC) Featuring work by Jamea Richmond Edwards, Danielle Scruggs, Kristen Hayes, Amber Robles-Gordon Curated by Zoma Wallace FOCUS GROUP: Four Walls, Four Five Women …
30-years-of-black-art-gets-a-fresh
by: Michael H. Hodges The new show at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, “Art of the Masters: A Survey of African American Images, 1980-2000,” opens with …
African American Atelier Celebrates 20 Years
by Yasmine Regester Carolina Peacemaker In 1991, nine local artists opened an African American art gallery in downtown Greensboro. 20 years later, it is still going strong. The African American …
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African-American Artist Archibald Motley and Paris
By:Meg Nola By 1929, Archibald Motley had begun to develop a reputation as an artist, attracting critical praise along with patrons actually willing to purchase his work. Born in New …
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Unbound Spirit: Folk Art from the Tubman Museum Collection
Artist: Jimmie Lee Sudduth Folk Art is usually described in one of two ways: as an artistic tradition passed down through generations, or as works of art created by individuals …
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African American art still needs support
By Kinshasha Holman Conwill The US art world is abuzz over the White House campaign to bring a greater diversity to its art collection—including more works by African American artists …
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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