BOWIE, MD — Overdue Recognition Art Gallery in Bowie showcases a collection of African American art created by sought-after artists. "Our artists use their artwork to interpret and portray ...

It was an era when African American artists found their creative voices and sought new horizons beyond the racial constraints of America. With its bohemian atmosphere and open-minded cultural ...

Three photographers are exhibiting work that confronts the way African-Americans are often perceived in art, the workplace ... a period of American history in the early 20th Century that saw ...

Arnika Dawkins Gallery features fine art photography created by artists of the African diaspora or about people of African descent. Contemporary African American artists, notes Dawkins, are ...

Callahan, Nancy. The Freedom Quilting Bee. University of Alabama Press: Tuscaloosa, 1987. The story of patchwork quilts created by African Americans and sold through a cooperative in Wilson County, ...

Charles White was an American artist known for murals and prints which often portrayed African American subjects. In particular, he used printmaking as a way to communicate with a wider audience, and ...

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 ...

As Black consciousness grew and evolved in the 1960s, however, Black artists wanted to go beyond that criteria. They wanted to place African American life in all corners of existence, including ...

The traveling exhibition Memories & Inspiration: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art presents sixty-seven selected works from a body of art amassed over thirty-five years ...