In its founding years in the early 20th century, the Louisiana State Museum borrowed dozens of artworks from Marshall Marcell ...

Helen LaFrance was a self-taught folk artist primarily focused on memory paintings—vivid depictions drawn from her ...

It was an era when African American artists found their creative voices and sought new horizons beyond the racial constraints ...

For Bernard and Shirley Kinsey, the collection is more than just art — it is a living, breathing history that […] ...

Sanford Biggers is contemporary African-American artist who works in sculpture, video, installation, and performance. Drawing from a diverse range of influences, including Buddhism and Afrofuturism, ...

Grudin, Eva Ungar. Stitching Memories: African American Story Quilts. Williams College Museum of Art: Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1989. A collection of mostly contemporary quilts that show how ...

Curator Mark Godfrey told the BBC: "We've done shows about American art for decades - it was a question of why hadn't we done one on African-American art? "And there was every reason to do it as ...

Clementine Hunter was a self-taught African American artist known for her painted depictions of early 20th-century plantation life in Louisiana. Hunter’s colorful oil paintings do not rely on ...

Art of Black Miami hits a milestone this year celebrating ten years. along with a slew of Miami Art Week events that ...

Art Beat Miami, a cultural event showcasing Caribbean and African-American artists, returns this week from Dec. 4-8 , ...

Satisfies a certificate requirement. (Crosslisted with Honors- AAM-2000-01H.) This course will discuss the visual arts (such as painting, sculpture and mixed media) created by African-American artists ...