Bookmark this fantastic recording on Black culture and art works !! Virginia Mecklenburg, senior curator, explores the work of Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Lois Mailou Jones, Melvin Edwards, and other artists featured in the exhibition African American Art: Harlem Renaissance , Civil Rights Era, and Beyond. These artists participated in ongoing dialogues about art, black […]
Top Black History Heroes From Texas
Explore Black Diasporan Art There are many notable black historic figures from Texas. Each of them made significant contributions to black history of not only Texas, but the nation at large. Black Texans have made major contributions in politics, military events, music, and sports. The accomplishments of those Texans continue being discussed in history classes […]
African American Poetry – The Players, The Times, The Themes, The Struggle!
Explore African American Culture African American Poetry is a form of literature that is basically an expressive and colorful form of the emotions of the black and enslaved populations of America. Many of the themes of early African American Poetry revolve around issues such as slavery, murder, familial problems, and lifestyle. The tone of most […]
Kerry James Marshall: the artist who only paints black people | Channel 4 News
Bookmark this great video on black America in the arts ! Black artist Kerry James Marshall decided at a young age to never paint a white person again. His work now hangs in the most prestigious museums and galleries in the world. Top stories: http://bit.ly/1wdbIG1 Video source Did you know about this? Let loose in […]
Black Artists from the Mid-20th century and Beyond
In the 1950s and 1960s, only a handful of African-American artists were commonly understood or accepted in the mainstream art world. In spite of this, The Highwaymen, a loose association of 26 African-American artists from Fort Pierce, Florida, produced picturesque, rapidly understood pictures of the Florida landscape and marketed some 200,000 of them from the […]
Edward Loper: Great African American Painter
We learned a lot from this wonderful narrative video on Black Americans within the arts world !! Edward Loper : African American Painter is a film is based on a 1998 oral interview. Edward Loper, Sr. is one of Delaware’s most celebrated cultural figures. Born on the east side of Wilmington, Delaware. Loper worked for […]