Emma Amos
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THE RISE OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN ART
I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge – even wisdom. Like art. Toni Morrison LIVING BLACK ARTISTS Yamou Abderrahim, Virgil Ablon, Nina Chanel…
Aaron Douglas, Beauford Delaney, Charles Alston, Charles White, David Hammons, Ed Clarke, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Elizabeth Catlett, Emma Amos, Faith Ringgold, Frank Bowling, Glenn Ligon, Hale Woodruff., Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Biggers, Kerry James Marshall, Mark Bradford, Robert Colescott, Romare Bearden, Sam Gilliam, Selma Burke, Speaker Victor, Thorton Dial, William H. Johnson
West Harlem Art Fund 