Oliver Wendell Harrington was an American cartoonist and an outspoken advocate against racism and for civil rights in the United States. Of multi-ethnic descent, Langston Hughes called him “America’s greatest African-American cartoonist”. Harrington requested political asylum in East Germany in 1961; he lived in Berlin for the last three decades of his life. Continue reading Profile: Ollie Harrington (1912-1995)
Abdul Qadim Haqq is an American visual artist who was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He is considered Detroit’s number one ambassador of art for world-renowned techno music artists. His artwork continues to inspire fans all over the world. Continue reading Profile: Abdul Qadim Haqq (1968-)
Cheryl Irene Hanna is an American artist and illustrator. Hanna was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, dropped out of Pratt Institute before she received her B.A. from Pratt Institute 1973. Continue reading Profile: Cheryl Hanna (1951-)
James Hampton was an American outsider artist from Washington, D.C., who worked as a janitor and secretly built a large assemblage of religious art from scavenged materials known as the Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly, currently on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Art critic Robert Hughes of Time magazine wrote that the Throne “may well be the finest work of visionary religious art produced by an American.” Continue reading Profile: James Hampton ( 1909-1964)
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