Faith Ringgold
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HARLEM’S FAITH RINGGOLD
Last night, a special tour of Faith Ringgold’s retrospective was offered at the New Museum by Artnoir. The works were stunning. Overwhelming at times. Everyone learned something new about Harlem’s Faith Ringgold. We highly recommend that folks see this show. The works inspired by France are worth seeing alone. There are costumes and dolls that were…
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Project Backboard
Project Backboard is a 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to renovate public basketball courts and install large scale works of art on the surface in order to strengthen communities, improve park safety, encourage multi-generational play, and inspire people to think more critically and creatively about their environment. St. Nicholas Park, Harlem This basketball court…
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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
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LIBERATING AUNT JEMINA
Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima? This is Ringgold’s first story quilt and the first quilt project she made by herself, without the help of her mother, who died the previous year. Squares along the borders depict African American women of varying ages from all walks of life, and the squares in the center depict…
West Harlem Art Fund 