Ramekon O’Arwisters is an African-American artist, best known for his fabric and social-art practice, Crochet Jam. He creates art using the folk-art tradition of rag-rug weaving. Ramekon’s work has been exhibited in New York, North Carolina, Tokyo, Bologna, Miami Beach, and San Francisco. He is also the former curator of fine-art photography at SFO Museum. Continue reading Profile: Ramekon O’Arwisters (1960-)
Tameka Norris is an American visual and performing artist. Norris uses painting, sculpture, and performance art to create work about racial identity and the simultaneous visibility and invisibility of blackness through cultural appropriation in modern society. Her work critiques the presence of the black body in the history of painting and fine art Continue reading Profile: Tameka Norris (1979-)
Floyd E. Norman is an American animator, writer, and comic book artist. Continue reading Profile: Floyd E. Norman (1935-)
On July 30, 1942, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) became a division of the U.S. Navy. This organization allowed thousands of women to enlist and it even commissioned several hundred others to supervise. Continue reading First Black American Women Officers in the Navy Joined as WAVES
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