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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]
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 ...
The National Black Arts Alliance ( NBAA ), originally known as the Black Arts Alliance ( BAA) when it was established in 1985, [1] is a British national members' network committed to the development of arts and artists from Black cultural communities through advocacy, training and events. The Alliance was formed by a group of community artists ...
Black Abstractionism is a term that refers to a modern arts movement that celebrates Black artists of African-American and African ancestry, whether as direct descendants of Africa or of a combined mixed race heritage, who create work that is not representational, presenting the viewer with abstract expression, imagery, and ideas.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. Nationality. American. Known for. Painting, Fiction and Non-Fiction Writing. Reginald K. Gee (April 28, 1964) is a creative artist, writer and musician. Gee’s brown paper bag series of paintings (1995-2002) [1] were featured in a 25-year retrospective at the David Barnett Gallery.
His art was the subject of a 1997 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, curated by Elisabeth Sussman. [177] The Public Art Fund, in collaboration with the Estate of Keith Haring, organized a multi-site installation of his outdoor sculptures at Central Park's Doris C. Freedman Plaza and along the Park Avenue Malls. [178]
No Colour Bar. No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960–1990 was a major public art and archives exhibition, the first of its kind in the UK, held at the Guildhall Art Gallery, City of London, over a six-month period (10 July 2015 – 24 January 2016), [1] with a future digital touring exhibition, and an associated programme of events. [2]
The National Black Theatre (NBT) is a non-profit cultural and educational corporation, and community-based theatre company born out of the civil rights movement to tell the stories of black theatre that did not often have a home in mainstream theatre. [1] Based in the Harlem neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan, NBT was ...