Music
This person is known as the King of Pop. He created hit songs such as “Beat it,” “Thriller,” and “Dirty Diana,” and globally made an impact in the music industry.
Who is Micheal Jackson?
Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat?
What is BLM?
This type of dance was made by African Americans in Harlem in the late 1920s. It is a way of dancing to fast paced Jazz.
What is Swing dance?
This music genre was created by African Americans in the Bronx and is currently the number one genre in the world.
What is hip-hop?
This artist created a series called The Migration Series, which are paintings on panels that told the realities of The Great Migration
Who is Jacob Lawrence?
This art movement was born in the streets of Harlem after and during the Great Migration. Music, performance, and fine arts were greatly influenced by African Americans at this time.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This place was established in 1913 in Harlem and it has been a significant venue for African American popular music and performance in the 20th century.
What is the Apollo Theater?
Who is Stevie Wonder?
This artist attended Cooper Union and graduated early for her amazing skills in sculpture. She became popular during the 1920s after creating her piece “Gamin”
Who is Augusta Savage?
This movement influenced art in political ways. African Americans in the 60s fought for basic human rights during this era
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
She particularly revolutionized choreography by adding African and Caribbean elements into modern dance techniques like ballet making the Dunham technique.
Who is Katherine Dunham?
Often called “the master of Jazz,” this trumpet player and vocalist made impact in the black community during the late 1960s with his song “What a Wonderful World”
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This Harlem artist is known for creating paintings on quilts that showed her great story telling. She recently passed away in April of this year
Who is Faith Ringgold?
With an increase in racial violence in the south and economic downfall , African Americans began to move north in order to escape prejudice and gain opportunities
What is the Great Migration?
Famous contemporary performer from Guam. Her work Untitled (2012) captures her painting a wall using her body as both tool and medium. Dressed in coveralls, she runs a knife through a lemon before cutting her tongue.
Who is Tameka Norris?
This music genre was created by middle class African Americans in Detroit in the 1980s. It is also known as “electronic dance music”
What is techno?
This painter from Alabama is famous for his painting “The Lost Boys”1993. He showed work in the MoMa and became a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Who is Kerry James Marshall
Made up of Cultural Nationalists after the assassination of Malcom X, this group called for the creation of poetry, novels, visual arts, and theater to reflect pride in black history and culture.
What is The Black Arts Movement?
The first comprehensive survey of more than five decades of performance art by several black visual artists (incl performers). The exhibition was organized by Valerie Cassel Oliver for the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and presented in New York
What is Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art?