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Get A Load Of These Black Women Artists–And Their Artwork
As we enter International Black Women's History Month, Black art has always been a means ... making the artist the first person to open a gallery for African American art. Savage was born in Florida ...
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Fisk University, David C. Driskell And Nashville’s Overlooked Role In Shaping Black Art In America
The thesis is simple, surprising, and undeniable: Nashville as central to African American fine art in the 20th century. Fisk University is the reason why. ByChadd Scott, Contributor. Forbes ...
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Trump order could yank $168K in funding from Louisville museum. What it's being spent on
The Speed Art Museum's Black Avant-Garde series may lose $168,000 in funding ... the histories of the collectives have been hidden from the larger public and excluded from American art history." In ...
African American Quilt Guild of Oakland is threading the needle between art and tradition
Like any jazz artist, the ability to adapt and improvise is a welcome skill. For the people in the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland, that skill reconciles years of history and encourages the ...