Friday, February 4, 2011
Mrs. Gilchrist's Art Class honors Amazing Black Artists during BlAcK hIsToRy MoNtH!!
Maya Angelou said, "It is time for parents to teach young people early on that, in diversity, there is beauty, and there is strength. We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value, no matter their color." Below are student presentations on the artists we all know and love:
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Harriet Powers was born in 1837 and died in 1910. She was an African American quilt maker and folk artist. She was born into slavery and would always think of quilting. Now only two of her quilts survive today. When she was escaping to the Under Ground Railroad she used her quilts to alert or signal the other slaves about the escape. That is my story about Harriet Powers.
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Henry Ossawa Tanner is an African American Artist. He was born June 21,1859 and he died May 25,1937. He was best known for his style of painting. He was the first african american painter to gain international acclaim.
ReplyDeleteIn 1879 he enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the fine arts in Philadelphia. During a relatively short time at the academy, Henry developed a through knowledge of anatomy and an ability to transfer his understanding of the weight and structure of the human figure to the canvas. After an unsuccessful attempt at opening a photography studio in Atlanta and teaching drawing at Clark Atlanta University. Henry traveled to France in 1891, to the Academic Julian, and joined the American Art Students Club of Paris. Paris was a welcome escape for Henry, within french art circles the issue of race mattered little. In 1893 he sold his first painting called, The Banjo Lesson.
Robert S. Duncanson
ReplyDeleteRobert S. Duncanson, was born in new york . He live from the years 1817 to 1872. He was educated in canada. During his early years in cincinnati, he encountered the usual difficulties of young artists. However,he had the good fortune to be sent to edinburgh, scotland to study the Anti-slavery League. paternal tradition led him to become "immoderately drunk on Tennessean and scott." As a result, his painting."The Lotus Eater ," was born. Duncanson received several commissions to point the portraits of prominent people during his residence in his country.
Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. (born September 27, 1982) in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States), better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an American rapper. At age of nine, Lil Wayne joined Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label, and half of the duo, The B.G.'z, with B.G.. In 1997, Lil Wayne joined the group Hot Boys, which also included rappers Juvenile, B.G., and Turk. Hot Boys debuted with Get It How U Live! that year. Lil Wayne gained most of his success with the group's major selling album Guerrilla Warfare, released in 1999. Also in 1999, Lil Wayne released his Platinum debut album Tha Block Is Hot, selling over one million copies in the U.S..
ReplyDeleteAlthough his next two albums Lights Out(2000 and 500 Degree (2000 were not as successful only reaching Gold status, Lil Wayne reached higher popularity in 2004 with Tha Carter, which included the single "Go D.J." Wayne also appeared on the Destiny's Child top ten single "Soldier" that year. In 2005, the sequel to Tha Carter, Tha Carter II, was released. In 2006 and 2007, Lil Wayne released several mixtapes and appeared on several popular rap and R&B singles. His most successful album, Tha Carter III, was released in 2008 which went on to sell 1.5 million copies in the U.S. its first week of release. It included the number-one single "Lollipop" and won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album. Lil Wayne released his debut rock album, Rebirth, in 2010 to primarily negative reception from critics even though the album eventully would go gold. In March 2010, Lil Wayne began serving an 8 month prison sentence in New York after being convicted of criminal possession of a weapon stemming from an incident in July 2007.
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Hale Aspacio Woodruff
ReplyDeleteBorn August 26,1900 Died September,1980, Hale was born in Cairo, Illinois. He received his early art training at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis and the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University. In 1927 he received the Harmon Foundation Award of one hundred dollars and went to Paris. He was an African American artist known for his murals, paintings, and prints. One example of his work is the three panel Amistad Mutiny murals, can be found at Talladega College in Talladega County, Alabama. The murals, commissioned and painted during the Great Depression, are entitled The Revolt, The Court Scene, and Back to Africa, portraying events related to the slave revolt on the Amistad. Located in Savery Library, they depict events on the ship, the U.S. Supreme Court trial, and the Mende people's return to Africa. The library also has a portrayal of the ship as part of the lobby floor. Local tradition at the college prohibits walking on the ship, despite its central location. In addition, the library has other Woodruff murals depicting other events from African-American history, including student registration at the college after the American Civil War.
Joshua Johnson was self-trained in his art.During a 30 year period of activity from 1795 to 1825 he produced many paintings with Baltimore- related subject matter, including commissioned portraits of local merchant, ship captains and shoemakers.
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ReplyDeleteMichael jackson was born in august 29 1958.Singer, songwriter. Jackson, in Gary, Indiana, to an African-American working-class family. His father, Joseph Jackson, had been a guitarist but had put aside his musical aspirations to provide for his family as a crane operator. Believing his sons had talent, he molded them into a musical group in the early 1960s. At first, the Jackson Family performers consisted of Michael's older brothers Tito, Jermaine, and Jackie. Michael joined his siblings when he was five, and emerged as the group's lead vocalist. He showed remarkable range and depth for such a young performer, impressing audiences with his ability to convey complex emotions. Older brother Marlonalso became a member of the group, which evolved into the The Jackson 5.Behind the scenes, Joseph Jackson pushed his sons to succeed. He was also reportedly known to become violent with them. Michael and his brothers spent endless hours rehearsing and polishing up their act. At first, the Jackson 5 played local gigs and built a strong following. They recorded one single on their own, "Big Boy" with the b-side "You've Changed," but it failed to generate much interest.
Augusta was born on February 1892 in Green Cove Springs near Jacksonville, Florida. Her birth name was Augusta Christine Fells. She began making clay figures as a child. Her father would beat her if he found her sculptures. The reason why he would beat her was because at that time he would believed her sculpture to be sinful practice. After the family moved to West Palm Beach she sculptured a Virgin Mary figure.
ReplyDeleteIn 1907, she married John Moore, they had a daughter, Irene. John died shortly after. Then she applied to Cooper Union (art school) in New York. Where she was admitted in October, 1921. During this time she married James Savage, they divorced after a few months, but she kept the name of Savage.
In 1923 Savaged applied for a summer art program sponsored by the French government; despite being more than qualified, she was turned down by the international judging committee, solely because she was black. Savage was deeply upset and questioned the committee, beginning the first of many public fights for equal rights.
Gordon Parks
ReplyDeleteGordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was born on November 30, 1912He was stillborn, no heartbeat, declared dead by the family doctor, and put aside for later burial. Another doctor in the delivery room had an idea, and immersed the newborn in ice-cold water. The shock caused his heart to start beating, and the baby was soon crying and healthy, and named for Dr. Gordon, who had saved his life. Gordon Parks became internationally renowned as a photographer, filmmaker, poet, novelist, and composer. Parks grew up poor in Fort Scott, Kansas, the youngest of 15 children.At 25, he bought a used camera for $7.50 and began working as a self-taught freelance photographer, focusing on everything from fashion to the effects the depression in Chicago's slums. His autobiographical novel The Learning Tree, covering his rough Kansas childhood, won rave reviews and strong sales He was a co-founder of Essence magazine, and wrote a ballet called Martin, in honor of King. His numerous books include The Sun Stalker, Poet & His Camera, To Smile in Autumn, and his autobiography, Voices in the Mirror. In his retirment, Parks did whatever he wished. He died March 7, 2006.
Alma Thomas is an expressionist painter. She was born on September 22,1891 and died on February 24,1978. She was born in Columbus,Georgia. Alma was a painter who viewed nature as a colorful abstract mosaic. She was a art teacher for 35 years! Although her hometown prohibited black people in public libraries, she continued with her education. She moved to washington, and attend Armstrong Technical High School where she excelled in math and science. As well as demonstrating a strong talent in architecture.
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ReplyDeleteJean Michel Basquait was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 22,1960. His form of art was expressed through painting. His father was Haitian/American and is mother was Puerto Rican so he was a mixed artist. Jean Michel Basquiat diverse cultural heritage was one of his many sources of inspiration to paint his stuff. One of the cool things about him is that he taught his self how to paint. One of the ways most people saw his artwork was by him putting it on sweatshirts and postcards. But that was before his artwork really took off and was put up in art museums. He died in august 12,1988. He died of a drug over dose when he was 27 years old. So he really didnt live that long but in his short life time he had an awesome career and even though he was really young it proves that even if you are 9 or 13 you still can have an career.
Ne-Yo
ReplyDeleteShaffer Chimere Smith Jr. ( Ne-Yo) was born on October 18, 1982 in Camden, Arkansas and baptized as Shaffer Chimere Smith. His father was African American and his mother was a mixed African American and Chinese; both of his parents were musicians. As a kid he was raised only by his mother after they split up.
While he was in high school, he was nicknamed "GoGo" and joined an R&B group named Envy. They disbanded in 2000 but he still continued to write songs for other artists before starting his solo career. Ne-Yo was signed to Columbia Records, but, after recording the first album, he was dropped from the label before he could release it.
Bernie Casey was born Bernard Terry Casey on June 8, 1939 in the small coal mining community of Wyco, West Virginia. Frank Leslie Casey and Flossie Coleman Casey are his parents . Casey grew up during the Depression in Wyco, a hillside coal town of just 10,000 residents. The Casey family moved to Columbus, where Casey attended Garfield Elementary School, Champion Junior High and Columbus East High School. Casey had already shown an aptitude for painting and drawing, and soon he developed his athletic abilities as well, particularly in basketball and football. His favorite color is blue. His favorite food is soup. His favorite time of the year is spring.
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ReplyDeleteLecrae mentions his grandmother as his initial driving force that encouraged him to become Christian. He recalls knowing about Christianity as early as his adolescent years, but struggling to see how Jesus applied to his life. It was only after high school that Lecrae became interested in Christianity. At 19-years-old, at the encouragement of a Christian leader, he attended a conference where he heard a message delivered by James White. Sitting in his chair in that moment, his world was turned upside down as the Holy Spirit convicted him of his sin and need for a Savior. Almost instantly, his renewed heart spilled over as he printed his testimony and passed it out across the University of North Texas campus. The next five years included many struggles and victories before he co-founded Reach Records in 2005, releasing his first album at the age of 25. Lecrae released his debut album Real Talk in 2004. After the success of Real talk, Lecrae released his second studio album on August 15, 2006. On October 8, 2008, Lecrae's third album, Rebel, entered the Billboards at #60 with 9,800 units sold.
Orlando Bagwell is an african america artist who was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Orlando was born into a family of seven. Orlando later on moved to Nashua, New Hampshire. While Orlando was at Nashua he attended Nashua High School. Orlando Bagwell was a football player at Nashua High School also.In the early 1970s, Bagwell worked for the United South End Settlements (USES) and was active in the organization's after school program. He later became a substitute teacher for the South Boston Public School District where he taught political science and history. Bagwell was contracted by Boston's WGBH-TV to work as a film producer in 1975.
ReplyDeleteJoseph Delayne born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1904, was prompted by his brother Beauford's artistic efforts to develop his own youthful talent. As the son of Reverend Samuel Delayne, Joseph learned to fear God and follow a straight and narrow path, but as he grew older he began to feel somewhat repressed by his parents beliefs and expectations.
ReplyDeleteFollowing his fathers death, Joseph left school and worked at a downtown hotel to help financially support his mother and other siblings. Unfortunately, the still teenage Delayne got caught up in the practice of bootleg. Probation, booze, and female companionship for guests and eventually he lost his bellhop job. Nonetheless, the experience piqued his curiosity about life beyond Knoxville and he soon left home to seek further adventures.
Michael jackson was born in August 29 1958. Born to an African-American working-class family. His father, Joseph Jackson was a guitarist but had put aside his musical aspirations to provide for his family. Believing his sons had talent, he made them into a musical group in the early 60s. At first, the Jackson Family performers was Michael's older brothers Tito, Jermaine, and Jackie. Michael joined his brothers when he was five, and emerged as their lead singer. He died June 25, 2009
ReplyDeleteRita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio to Ray Dove,the first African American chemist to work in the U.S. tire industry (as research chemist at Goodyear), and Elvira Hord, who achieved honors in high school and would share her passion for reading with her daughter. In 1970 Dove graduated from Buchtel High School as a President Scholar, making her one of the 100 top American high school graduates that year. Later, Dove graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Miami University in 1973 and received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1977. In 1974 she held a Fulbright Scholarship from Eberhard Karls University, Tubingen, Germany. Dove taught creative writing at Arizona State University from 1981-1989. She received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, and in 1993, at the age of 40, she was named Poet Laureate of the United States by the Librarian of Congress, an office she held from 1993-1995 as the youngest person,and as the first and to date only African American. Gwendolyn Brooks had been the last Consultant in Poetry in 1985-1986, prior to U.S. Congress' action renaming the position Poet Laureate. She served as Special Bicentennial Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress in 1999/2000
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ReplyDeleteWillie cole grew up in Newark New Jersey. He attended the Boston University School of Fine Arts. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1976, and continued his studies at the Art Students League of New York from 1976-79.
Willie Cole’s art is best known for assembling and transforming ordinary used objects such as irons, ironing boards, high-heeled shoes, hair dryers, bicycle parts, wooden matches, lawn jockeys, and other discarded appliances and hardware, into imaginative and powerful works of art.
Cole’s widely recurring symbolic and artistic object that was initially brought to the attention of the art world in the mid-1980s has been the steam iron. While Cole’s unique approach of imprinting the steam iron’s marks on a variety of media result in a wide-ranging decorative potential of his scorching . These scorches are also to be viewed as a reference to Cole’s African American heritage.
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ReplyDeleteKara Walker was born November 26,1969 Stockton,California. She was an artist who used intricately cut paper silhouettes to comment on race & gender relations. She showed promise as an artist from a young age,but it was not until the family moved to Georgia. When she was 13 that she began to focus on issues of race. She is famous for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes.
Annie Frances Lee an African American artist was born March 3,1935 in Gadsden Alabama. Annie was raised by a single parent while growing up in Chicago Illinois. Annie attended Wendell Philips high school. Annie's favorites are, her favorite color is blue,her favorite food is seafood & chili, her favorite quote is "take care of your own business!" her favorite time of the year is summer & her favorite vacation spot is shopping anywhere in the world. Annie began to have a interest in painting at a young age,and her interest grew and she started painting at a very young age. At the age of 10 Annie entered her first art competition and won first place. After graduating hight school at Wendell Philips High she was offered a four year scholarship to Northwest University. Annie turned down the four year scholarship and instead decided to marry and have children and to raise a family. Even though she turned down the scholarship and decided to marry and raise a family she still found time to paint her wonderful paintings.
ReplyDeleteCurtis James Jackson 111 was born on july 6, 1975. Better known by his stage name 50 cent, is an american rapper and actor. he rose to fame with the release of his albums "Get Rich Or Die Trying" (2003) and "The Massacre" (2005). Get Rich Or Die Trying has sold over 15 million copies world wide. The Massacre has sold over 11 million copies world wide. the product of a broken home, 50 cent grew up in South side Jamaica, Queens NY. His mother raised 50 cent till he was eight, when she died in a fire at the age of 23. 50s father left shortly after she died. his grandparents raised him after that. 50 was shot nine times with a 9 mm pistol, 50 was hit with bullets in his cheek, his hand and his legs. soon after the hype of a8 mile, 50 struck gold when the single, "in da club" blew up to radio, debuting at number one on the billdboard.
ReplyDeleteMichael Jackson was born August 29,1956. He was an american recording artist, dancer, singer-song writer, musician and philanthropist. Michael Jackson was the King of Pop. His contribution to music, dance and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The eight child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with brother as a member of The Jackson 5 in the mid-1960's and began his solo career in 1971.
ReplyDeleteIn the early 1980's, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. Jackson's 1982 album Thriller is the best selling album of all time. Michael Jackson was the eight of ten children in an African American working-class family who lived in a small 3-room house in Gary, Indiana an industrial suburb of Chicago. Jackson had a troubled relationship with his father, Joe. Joseph acknowledged in 2003 that he regularly whipped Jackson as a child.
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ReplyDeleteAlma Thomas was an african american artist,she was born in september 22, 1891 and died on february 24,1978. She was born and raised in Columbus,Georgia. Thomas moved to Washington,DC with her family in 1907. She was the first graduate from the Howard university art department in 1924...........
Aretha Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was referred to as The Queen of Soul. Aretha is one of the most honored artists by the Grammy Awards, with 18 competitive Grammys to date , and two honorary Grammys. She has scored a total of 20 #1 singles on the billboard R&B Singers chart. Since 1961, she has scored a total of 45 "top 40" hits on the billboard hot 100. In 1987, Franklin became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She was the only featured singer at the 2009 presidential inauguration of Barack Obama.
ReplyDeleteJoshua Johnson was a self trained artist. During a 30 year period from 1785 to 1825 he produced more paintings with Baltimore related subject matter. No other artist in Maryland painted as many portraits of children and their parents as he did. More us know about the people he painted than him self. Such lack of documents among African Americans was common this period of time. At this time Baltimore had a large free population of African Americans. The Mary land historical society own a document that is dated 1782 Which documents that he was free at age 20. Census records show that he moved frequently through Baltimore and it's fells points. He was owned as a servant to a painter during his youth.
ReplyDelete......Congas and tambourinc. On January 27,1984, Michael and other
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Sargent Claude Johnson was born in 1888. He was the third of six children in his family he and his siblings were orphaned at a very young age and went to live with their uncle, Sherman Jackson Williams, and his wife, May Howard Jackson. May was an artist, and it was probably her that influenced Johnson to become an artist himself. In 1915, Johnson moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. The same year, he married Pearl Lawson and began studying at the A.W. Best School Of Art. In 1926, Johnson began showing his work with the Harlem Foundation, an African-American art foundation, and became locally and nationally known. He won many awards while he was with the Harlem Foundation. Later in the 1930's, he commissioned his art with the Federal Arts Project. Johnson's early work focused mainly on racial identity. He once said, "African-Americans are a colorful race; they call for an art as colorful as they can be made." Sargent Johnson died in 1967 at the age of 79.
ReplyDelete..........Her early art was realistic,but delved into abstration influenced by the work of her professors Lois Mallou Jones and James Herring
ReplyDeleteLouis Armstrong claims that he was born on July 4, 1900. Louis was poor and then he became rich. Louis was really born on August 4, 1901.
ReplyDeleteAt the age 16 he had a huge crowd to play for. He was sent to reform school for a practical joke. When people interveiwed him he said it brouht him back to ht time.....
Edward m. Bannister.
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Mars was born Peter Gene Hernandez and raised in the Waikiki neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii, by parents Pete and Bernadette, "Bernie" Hernandez, of Puerto Riccan and Filipino descent. In 2003, shortly after graduating from President Theodore Roosevelt High School at the age of seventeen, Mars moved to Los Angeles, Calfornia to pursue a musical career. He adopted his stage name from the nickname his father gave him, adding "mars" at the end because, "I felt like I didn't have pizzazz, and a lot of girls say I'm out of this world, so I was like I guess I'm from Mars." Shortly after moving to Los Angeles, Mars signed to Motown Records in 2004, in a deal that "went nowhere". However, Mars' experience with Motown proved to be beneficial to his career when he met songwriter and producer Philip Lawrence, who was also signed to the label. Mars, Lawrence, and Engineer Ari Levine began writing songs together, and formed the production team The Smeezingtons. In 2006, Lawrence introduced Mars to his future manager at Atlantic Records, Aaron Bay-Schuck. After hearing him play a couple of songs on the guitar, Bay-Schuck wanted to sign him immediately, but it took about three years for Atlantic Records to finally sign Mars to the label. In the meantime, Bay-Schuck in an interview with HitQuarters, Mars had stated that although his ultimate goal was to be a solo artist, he was willing to write and produce songs for other artists, both to help him improve his songwriting and help him discover the type of artist he ultimately wanted to be. Bay-Schuck credits this as a period of "self-discovery" that contributed significally to Mars' later success.
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