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Transit Equality Day or "Transit Equity Day" is a holiday in honor of the civil rights leader Rosa Parks, celebrated in the United States on her birthday, February 4. Rosa Parks Day was created by a network of Unions, including the Labor Sustainability Network, in 2017. [ 1 ]
[5] [6] Its purpose was to bring "the African-American community into the arts at every level, from making art to administering programs." [2] Barnes and Trotty were also founding board members of the African American Heritage Museum led by Dr. Robert Galloway that began in February 1988 and opened later that year.
Deborah Roberts (born 1962) is an American contemporary artist.Roberts is a mixed media collage artist whose figurative works depict the complexity of Black subjecthood and explores themes of race, identity, and gender politics taking on the subject of otherness as understood against the backdrop of existing societal norms of race and beauty. [1]
It includes African-American artists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "21st-century African-American women artists" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
The National Association of Women Artists, Inc. (NAWA) is a United States organization, founded in 1889 to gain recognition for professional women fine artists in an era when that field was strongly male-oriented. It sponsors exhibitions, awards and prizes, and organizes lectures and special events.
McCannon was born and raised in Harlem and was inspired to become an artist at the age of 10. She is self-taught and works intuitively. Calling herself a mixed-media multimedia artist, she works at "fusing my fine art 'training' with the traditional women's needlework taught to me by my mother, Lottie K. Porter, and grandmother Hattie Kilgo — sewing, beading, embroidery, and quilting into ...
Dindga McCannon explains her work and her archive at the Brooklyn Museum at the exhibition We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 after a roundtable discussion with other black women artists at the Black Lunch Table event. Black Lunch Table: We Wanted A Revolution Roundtable. Women visual artists of the African Diaspora meet at ...
Her work is inspired by her life as an African American woman and informed by her 30 years teaching at Essex County College in New Jersey. In her own words, "My Blackness is a declarative statement in my work.” [2] Taylor Pickett was one of the artists whose work was exhibited in the 1986 group show Progressions: Cultural Legacy at MoMA PS1 ...