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2. Visual arts of Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Visual arts of Chicago refers to paintings, prints, illustrations, textile art, sculpture, ceramics and other visual artworks produced in Chicago or by people with a connection to Chicago. Since World War II , Chicago visual art has had a strong individualistic streak, little influenced by outside fashions.

3. South Side Community Art Center - Wikipedia

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   The South Side Community Art Center is a community art center in Chicago that opened in 1940 with support from the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in Illinois. [1] Opened in an 1893 mansion in Bronzeville , it became the first black art museum in the United States [ 2 ] and has been an important center for developing Chicago ...

4. DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center - Wikipedia

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   Although it focuses on exhibiting African-American culture, it is one of several Chicago museums that celebrates Chicago's ethnic and cultural heritage. [ 17 ] Antoinette Wright, director of the DuSable Black History Museum, has said that African-American art has grown out of a need for the culture to preserve its history orally and in art due ...

5. Calvin B. Jones - Wikipedia

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   Jones' paintings were exhibited internationally (Senegal and Nigeria). [3]His work was included in the Art in Chicago, 1945-1995 exhibition. [3]The artwork of his early fine art career incorporated African American figures set against patterns reminiscent of African textiles.

6. List of African-American visual artists - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. AfriCOBRA - Wikipedia

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   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]