In the roaring twenties, the world buzzed with jazz rhythms and a spirit of liberation. It was an era when African American artists found their creative voices and sought new horizons beyond the ...
Sanford Biggers is contemporary African-American artist who works in sculpture, video, installation, and performance. Drawing from a diverse range of influences, including Buddhism and Afrofuturism, ...
Clementine Hunter was a self-taught African American artist known for her painted depictions of early 20th-century plantation life in Louisiana. Hunter’s colorful oil paintings do not rely on ...
Benberry, Cuesta. Always There: The African American Presence in American Quilts. The Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc.: Louisville, 1992. A selection of quilts and with chapters that include slave-made ...
Three photographers are exhibiting work that confronts the way African-Americans are often perceived in art, the workplace, and through their physical appearance. Alanna Airitam / Endia Beal ...
The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...
The extraordinary Kinsey Collection contains more than 700 books, artifacts and pieces of art that chronicle Black America from 1595 to the present. The collection was founded by Bernard Kinsey, a ...