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Website. karawalkerstudio .com. Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, printmaker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes.
Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow c. 1859, Hudson River School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.. This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting ...
Clementine Hunter. Clementine Hunter (pronounced Clementeen; late December 1886 or early January 1887 – January 1, 1988) was a self-taught Black folk artist from the Cane River region of Louisiana, who lived and worked on Melrose Plantation . Hunter was born into a Louisiana Creole family at Hidden Hill Plantation near Cloutierville, in ...
Elizabeth Holmes. Elizabeth Anne Holmes (born February 3, 1984) is an American biotechnology entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud in connection to her blood-testing company, Theranos. [ 2] The company's valuation soared after it claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing methods that needed only very small volumes of blood ...
Debbie Allen. The award-winning legendary dancer, choreographer, actress, singer, and producer Debbie Allen hardly needs an introduction. In 1983, Allen became the first Black woman to win a ...
A–C. Roy Acuff, country music singer, performed in blackface in 1930s-40s traveling medicine shows [ 1] Scarlet Adams [ 2] Anne of Denmark, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, in The Masque of Blackness [ 3] Fred Armisen, impersonating U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live in 2008 and 2009 [ 4]
She is arguably the best Black singer of all time. 5. Ella Fitzgerald. circa 1948: American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald (1917 – 1996). (Photo by George Konig/Keystone/Getty Images) – Credit ...
This is a list of women artists who were born in America or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. Included are recognized American women artists, known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art ...