Midterm Paper A Short Paper Presented to Professor Spencer For: Art 315-01 By Brandi Robinson October 17, 2014 Hampton University Hampton, Virginia [pic][pic] Born in Oakland, CA, Humphrey received a BFA in printmaking and painting from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, and an MFA in printmaking from Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. Humphrey is highly regarded as an artist and master printmaker. She created The Last Bar-B-Que after three years of
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Black history. One significant African American Activist and Feminist is Faith Ringgold. Faith Ringgold was born in Harlem, New york city, New York, on october eighth, 1930, and has a powerful story of her upbringing the provides her arts and crafts with inspiration, and pride of her identity. Faith’s mother was a fashion designer, and taught Faith how to quilt, a craft that has been in her family more than a hundred years. At the time Women-especially african american women-were seen as incapable
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Elizabeth Catlett was one of the most revolutionary activist for the black community, through art. In my opinion I thought that was very wise seeing that; art is a public form that can never be hidden or blocked out no matter the circumstances. Meanwhile, her beautiful Cedar statue named “homage to my young black sisters” is seen posing in the infamous black power stance. Shape, color and texture are all elements of art that are present in such a majestic sculpture. It's shape within the pose captures the
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of Tuskegee Institute, a normal and industrial school in Alabama. Students would receive instruction in thirty-three trades and industries, including carpentry, blacksmithing, printing, and machinery to name a few. His school aimed to train African-Americans in the skills that would help them the most in everyday practical things of life. “…the policy of industrial schools- fitting students for occupations which would be open to them in their home communities (Washington, 4).” For example, in the
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Charlie Fierro Protest Art!: The Rhetoric of Art as Social Activism RBA June 4, 2010 Alexis Charles Chappelle and Pryor’s True Hollywood Stories If you get pulled over wouldn’t you turn your radio down, no body wants to get their ass beat to a soundtrack. --Dave Chappelle Although this comment is humorous and socially clever, Chappelle’s joke says more about American culture, specifically racial and class issues, than most academics can hope to explain
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Ruston Christian Professor Smith English 2020 25 November 2014 Du Bois’ and Washington: The Rivalry Both W.E.B Dubois and Booker T. Washington were great African American leaders and writers during the beginning of the 20th century. Booker T. Washington’s “Up from Slavery” provides a great depiction of his experience with slavery and he also expresses his views on education and ways to enhance the citizenship of blacks in society. W.E.B Dubois’ Souls of Black Folk exemplifies the contradictions
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African American Literature ENG/301 Kristina Brooks March 12, 2012 The African American Literature and its history was an interesting subject or ethnic literary to learn about. This literature’s readings showed a great deal of different moments or life events that the different authors experienced as well as tragic events, and heart felt pain they endured over their lifetime. Some authors talked about the wonderful life they lived and how blessed they
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essay, Picturing Us, tackles the issues of self-representation of African-Americans in pictures. In 1955 when Debra Willis first saw the photographs in the book, The Sweetfly Paper of Life, it left an “indelible mark” on her youthful mind. (Pg. 3). It was her first time seeing “colored” people that she could relate to. Through the narratives of the photos Willis was reminded of her family and the universal pride of other African-American families. From that point onward her sense of self was positively
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Kerry James Marshall was born in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated from Otis College of Art and Design where he developed his artistic skills. He is married to an actress named Cheryl Lynn Bruce and currently lives in Chicago. Marshall is an American artist well known for his fascinating paintings that interpret both real and imaginative events from African-American history. Most of his work has been influenced by the Black Power and Civil Rights movements, as well as, his experiences as
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