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Archibald Motley painting Blues (1929). The Chicago Black Renaissance (also known as the Black Chicago Renaissance) was a creative movement that blossomed out of the Chicago Black Belt on the city's South Side and spanned the 1930s and 1940s before a transformation in art and culture took place in the mid-1950s through the turn of the century.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Known for: Painting; visual art: Notable work: The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy: Movement: New Negro Movement (Chicago Black Renaissance) Spouse(s) Elizabeth Catlett (m. 1941-1946; divorced) Frances Barrett (m. 1950-1979; his death) [1]
The museum is a Modernist structure of glass and steel, with about 10,000 square feet (930 m 2) of exhibits. [4] Dr. John Fleming led the museum from 1988 to 1998. [5] Mr. Vernon S. Courtney led the museum from 1999 to 200
Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum: Tallahassee: Florida: 1976 [152] Spady Cultural Heritage Museum: Delray Beach: Florida: 2001 [153] Spelman College Museum of Fine Art: Atlanta: Georgia: 1996 [154] Springfield and Central Illinois African-American History Museum: Springfield: Illinois: 2012 [155] Stiles African ...
African American History Museum in Springfield searching for new executive director. Gannett. Claire Grant, Springfield State Journal- Register. April 9, 2024 at 4:36 AM.
The Chicago Black Renaissance and women's activism (U of Illinois Press, 2023. Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Migration and How It Changed America (1991). Logan, John R., Weiwei Zhang, and Miao David Chunyu. "Emergent ghettos: Black neighborhoods in New York and Chicago, 1880–1940." American Journal of Sociology 120.4 (2015 ...
A rust belt town with growing pains. Springfield has been an industrial town since the late 1800s, but the city's median income dropped between 1999 and 2014 when manufacturing jobs declined in ...
This list of museums in Ohio is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.