Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Helen LaFrance (November 2, 1919 – November 20, 2020) was a self-taught Black American artist born in Graves County, Kentucky, the second of four daughters to James Franklin Orr and Lillie May Ligon Orr. Helen has often been described as both an outsider artist due to her lack of formal training and existence outside the cultural mainstream ...
Coordinates: 36.09875°N 80.24863°W. The International Black Theatre Festival (IBTF), formerly the National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF), was founded in 1989 by Larry Leon Hamlin in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Serving as its executive director, Hamlin’s goal in creating the Festival was "to unite black theatre companies in America to ...
Kerrville is a city in, and the county seat of Kerr County, Texas, United States. [4] The population of Kerrville was 24,278 at the 2020 census. [5] Kerrville is named after James Kerr, a major in the Texas Revolution, and friend of settler-founder Joshua Brown, who settled in the area to start a shingle-making camp.
In 2007, Ellis' work was exhibited at "Embrace: the Fine Art Fair of the National Black Arts Festival". [14] In February of that year he was profiled in the "11th Annual Citywide African American Art Exhibition" at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. He was a 2007 Honoree of the National Black MBA Association.
The National Black Arts Festival (NBAF) is an organization based in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 1987. [1] [2] It was originally a one-week long summer festival which was held biennially starting in 1998. [1]
v. t. e. The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was an African-American -led art movement that was active during the 1960s and 1970s. [3] Through activism and art, BAM created new cultural institutions and conveyed a message of black pride. [4] The movement expanded from the incredible accomplishments of artists of the Harlem Renaissance.
African-American art is a broad term describing visual art created by African Americans. The range of art they have created, and are continuing to create, over more than two centuries is as varied as the artists themselves. [1] Some have drawn on cultural traditions in Africa, and other parts of the world where the Black diaspora is found, for ...
Rashid Johnson (born 1977) is an American artist who produces conceptual post-black art. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Johnson first received critical attention in 2001 at the age of 24, when his work was included in Freestyle (2001) curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem. [ 4 ] He studied at Columbia College Chicago and the School of the ...