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Kevin Cole (born 1960) is an African-American artist and educator. He has created more than 45 public art works including a 55-foot long installation for the Atlanta International Airport, and the Coca-Cola Centennial Olympic Mural for the 1996 Olympic games.
On November 24, 2014, The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that 57 works by contemporary African American artists from the Southern United States were donated to the museum by the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from its William S. Arnett Collection. An exhibition devoted to the gift took place at the Metropolitan Museum in fall 2016.
Since the 1950s, the understanding and presenting of abstract work by Black artists has been a major movement in African American and American art history. [18] [20] [21] By the 1970s, the American art world was evenly split between Black artists who created representational and political work, and artists who investigated "abstract strategies."
A renewable energy sculpture is an artwork that produces power from renewable sources, such as solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric or tidal. Such a sculpture is functionally both a renewable energy generator and a work of art , fulfilling utilitarian, aesthetic, and cultural functions.
Neo-Expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) began his career on the streets in the late 1970s, quickly attracting attention for the graffiti art he and Al Diaz made under the tag SAMO.
Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI), founded by Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry, [1] is an organization dedicated to devising alternative energy solutions through sustainable design and public art [2] by providing platforms for scientists and engineers to collaborate with artists, architects and other creatives on public art projects that generate sustainable energy infrastructures. [3]
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The term solarpunk was coined in 2008 in a blog post titled "From Steampunk to Solarpunk", [11] in which the anonymous author, taking the design of the MS Beluga Skysails (the world's first ship partially powered by a computer-controlled kite rig) as inspiration, conceptualizes a new speculative fiction subgenre with steampunk's focal point on specific technologies but guided by practicality ...