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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 a laborer and his mother a domestic. Pippin always enjoyed drawing, particularly of objects or images he saw in his surroundings. Pippin’s father died when …
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 important Annual Awards Competition ended earlier in 1933. Visual artists such as SELMA BURKE, AUGUSTA SAVAGE, JOSEPH DELANEY, ROMARE BEARDEN, BEAUFORD DELANEY, LOIS MAILOU JONES, …
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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 be described as a true renaissance man. Ed Dwight has succeeded in all these areas. However, for the last 3o years, Ed has focused his …
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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 is an admired African American artist, known more for his Blackart prints and reproduction. Portraits of Mohammed Ali, Malcolm X, MartinLuther King, and many more. …
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$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 of four. Alan attended Mergenthaler Vocational Technical High School in Baltimore for Commercial Art and took additional training at Schuler’s School of the Fine Art, …
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 MICHAEL MORAIN • mmorain@dmreg.com Over the years, the Des Moines Art Center’s acquisition committee has had a pretty good track record of buying work by …
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 reminds her to remain humble. She proudly states, “It’s the first thing I knew I could do well and I know it’s what God made …
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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 have such a category, the beautiful and talented Daria Amerik of Chicago, Illinois will win, hands down. This hardworking and fine art major from the …
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By RICK BROWN Hub Staff Writer | KEARNEY — Wanda Ewing wants to focus her paintings on the idea of feminine beauty. “It’s coming from the voice of being black and female,” the Omaha artist said of her work. “I’m living in an area where I don’t possess the conventional beauty standard. And I don’t …
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Published on 12 December 2010 by JClowe in Current Exhibitions November 13, 2010 through January 31, 2011 in the Museum Library(open Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, from 1 to 4 p.m.)Norman Rockwell Museum 9 Route 183 Stockbridge, MA 01262 413-298-4100 x 221“I guess that my philosophical approach to life is that I am fascinated with the …
Ongoing Exhibition This long-term exhibition serves as the central experience of the museum. The 22,000 square-foot exhibition space contains more than 20 galleries that allow patrons to travel over time and across geographic boundaries. The journey begins in prehistoric Africa, the cradle of human life. Witness several ancient and early modern civilizations that evolved on …
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If you feel your restaurant decor is drab, spruce it up with unusual framed art. Every wall can tell a story from the past, reflect a certain theme, or create the dining atmosphere you want for your patrons. There are paintings and posters to reflect almost any theme. From African-American art to Latin art, and …
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The NCCU Department of Art offers students the opportunity to earn their Bachelor of Art degree in Art. Students may choose to concentrate in Visual Communications, Studio, Art Education, or General Art Studies. Each concentration provides challenging instruction in an intellectually stimulating environment where students become informed and well-rounded artist, designers, and teachers. In their …
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Naomi Sims: March 30, 1948 – Aug. 1 — Sims is widely credited as being the first African American supermodel. Her key breakthrough came when she was selected for a national television campaign for AT&T, which showed her and two other models — one white and one Asian — wearing fashions by Bill Blass. After …
By al benson “IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas,” a Smithsonian Institution traveling display focusing on African-Native American people, will be exhibited at the Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures at Aurora University from Dec. 17 to Feb. 27. The 20-panel exhibit, part of the museum’s 20th anniversary celebration, is free to the public …
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