Artist Birthday: Betye Saar
The unique assemblages of Betye Saar helped elevate the medium to fine art status when she began producing them in the late 1960s. Her works explore her African American identity, her African heritage ...
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Artist Birthday: Edmonia Lewis
Edmonia Lewis was a pioneering African American and woman artist, at a time when it was difficult for either to get an arts education. Lewis skillfully learned the style that was dear to American patr ...
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Artist Birthday: Barbara Chase-Riboud
The tradition of African American women sculptors goes all the way back to the 1800s with Edmonia Lewis (1844–1907), continues through the Harlem Renaissance in the person of Augusta Savage (189 ...
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National Skilled Trades Day: Jacob Lawrence
National Skilled Trades Day was established in 2019 by the National Day Calendar and City Machine Technologies, Inc. Skilled workers are employed in a variety of fields and positions that can be perso ...
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Artist Birthday: Elizabeth Catlett
Elizabeth Catlett’s body of work as an artist was predominantly intended to connect with and honor achievements of African Americans, particularly women. Her works about women such as this army ...
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National Library Week: Jacob Lawrence
Established in 1958, National Library Week has been sponsored by the American Library Association. It now has international recognition. National Library Week was started to encourage the support and ...
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Black History Month: Cey Adams
Throughout the history of the United States, African American artists have been pioneers in many artistic movement. Since the Harlem Renaissance (ca. 1920s–1930s), many Black American ...
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Black History Month: Ali and Chase-Riboud
The Curator’s Corner celebration of Black History Month continues with two contemporary artists whose personal visions are broadly different, but fascinating nonetheless—Laylah Ali and Bar ...
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Black History Month: Woodruff, Lewis, Jennings
My celebration of Black History Month continues with three more artists who are very important in the history of art—Hale Woodruff, Norman Lewis, and Wilmer Jennings. They represent the divergen ...
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Black History Month: Herring, Tolliver, Middleton
I’m kicking off National Black History Month with artists I find fascinating. Their styles are extraordinary, and their names are probably not on the tips of every art historian’s tongue&m ...
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