Ayanah Moor is a conceptual artist working in print, video, mixed media, and performance. Her work addresses contemporary popular culture by interrogating identity and vernacular aesthetics. Much of her works center on hip-hop culture, American politics, black vernacular, and gender performance. Continue reading Profile: Ayanah Moor (1973-)
Samuel Lee Gravely Jr. was a United States Navy officer. He was the first African American in the U.S. Navy to serve aboard a fighting ship as an officer, the first to command a Navy ship, the first fleet commander, and the first to become a flag officer, retiring as a vice admiral. Continue reading Profile: Samuel Lee Gravely Jr (1922-2004)
Evangeline “EJ” Montgomery is an American artist known primarily for her metalwork. She has also worked as a printmaker, lithographer and curator. She received the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. Art historian Floyd Coleman has said she “is an important figure in American art. She has a long career of participating and assuming leadership in progressive causes that promoted the arts and the development of the community.” He describes her as a politically active artist, arts administrator, and activist. Continue reading Profile: Evangeline Montgomery (1930-)
Nicole Miller is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Miller uses film and installations to explore the transformative capabilities of the moving image to reconstruct interpretations of self and culture. Her videos focus on the interplay between preconception and reality in terms of African American identity. The result of her work transforms into a powerful storytelling tool wielded for the possible reconstitution of lost histories and identities. Continue reading Profile: Nicole Miller (1982-)
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