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Prior to founding the Collective, Barnes in 1983 founded the Barnes-Blackman Gallery in partnership with The Ensemble Theatre with art shown part-time in the theater's lobby prior to each performance. [5] [6] Its purpose was to bring "the African-American community into the arts at every level, from making art to administering programs." [2]
Brown's work was a part of the Black Arts Movement which was a collaboration of black artists, visual artists musicians, and poets. [4] Vertical files for Kay Brown are in the Evans-Tibbs Collection of the National Gallery of Art Library. [5] Her image is included in the iconic 1972 poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson ...
The product of a 2014 meeting at Gates Barbecue with Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II and his assistant Jim Vaughan, Kansas City artists Glenn North, Diallo Javonne French, Gerald Dunn, Jason Piggie, NedRa Bonds and Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin started hosting regular meetings and gaining press coverage for their work in the Kansas City community.
An exhibition of the work of afriCOBRA describes Jones-Hogu's individual art style as "fus[ing] political messages, images, and text." [4] Jones-Hogu's work is displayed in many museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum, the National Civil Rights Museum, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
This category collects together organizations dedicated to African-American arts and artists -- collection, display, promotion, curation, education, etc. Pages in category "African-American arts organizations"
AfriCOBRA was founded on the South Side of Chicago by a group of artists intent on defining a "black aesthetic." AfriCOBRA artists were associated with the Black Arts Movement in America, a movement that began in the mid-1960s and that celebrated culturally-specific expressions of the contemporary Black community in the realms of literature, theater, dance and the visual arts. [6]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American artists. It includes artists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. For more information, see African American art .
Knighten left Corporate America in 2017 after nearly twenty years in marketing to become the CEO of Rissa’s Artistic Design, and a commercial model. Knighten started working full time as a professional artist participating in her first Kansas City fashion week in 2018. She is a member of the African American Artists Collective KC. [3]