Profile: The North Star
The North Star was a nineteenth-century anti-slavery newspaper published from the Talman Building in Rochester, New York, by abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Continue reading Profile: The North Star
Profile: Gwendolyn Ann Magee (1943-2011)
Gwendolyn (Gwen) Ann Magee was an African-American fiber artist. Learning to quilt in the middle of her life, Magee quickly became known in the world of fiber art for her abstract and narrative quilts depicting the African-American experience. Continue reading Profile: Gwendolyn Ann Magee (1943-2011)
Profile: Tamara Natalie Madden (1975-2017)
Tamara Natalie Madden was a Jamaican-born painter and mixed-media artist working and living in the United States. Madden’s paintings are allegories whose subjects are the people of the African diaspora. Continue reading Profile: Tamara Natalie Madden (1975-2017)
Profile: Ronald Lockett (1965–1998)
Ronald Lockett was an American visual artist, combining painting with three dimensional objects. “Lockett’s primary artistic mentor” was the painter Thornton Dial, his cousin. Continue reading Profile: Ronald Lockett (1965–1998)
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