February Artists
IG Artists True or False
Women's Art
TMNT...
Go get a job
200
This American portrait artist uses a naturalistic style pose to recreate Renaissance art with the contemporary black man in his work. He is also called "that Obama painter guy"
Kehinde Wiley
200
True or False!
Bou Bou Niang is Sengalese contemporary painter
His themes are seen is his performances , which often connect the painting tool directly to the subject or a specific cause.
True
200
Who painted this?
Frida Kahlo
200
Michelangelo carved this (biblical) statue, but it represents the freedom of the people of Florence, rising up against the "oppressor." 
Statue of David
200
This Mexican horror film maker has a house of horrors that is used to inspire other artists. He is famous for Hellboy, Pan Labyrith and other famous movies.
Guillermo del Toro
400
This Japanese-born American "army brat" uses her camera and gold paint to capture the next generation and create "patterns and motifs. Just as Byzantine icons serve as windows to the spiritual realm".
She says, "We exist beyond the atrocities afflicted upon our ancestors; we exist beyond the pain."
Tawny Chatmon
400
True or False
Alex Peter Idoko is a Nigerian artist.
Themes: His work goes even deeper because he uses his beautiful portraits to tell narratives that are typically ignored. His images fiery, futurism to his work.
True!
400
Safeyah Aljabouri is known for using what medium, which moves like butter, kind of like oil pastel, but way more expensive.
oil paint
400
School of Athens
400
Paul R Williams might use the tudor design below for building these....
Paul R Williams
600
His childhood home in New York City was a gathering place for Harlem Renaissance luminaries such as Langston Hughes and Duke Ellington. His mother, was a reporter for a leading Black newspaper and eventually become President of the Negro Women’s Democratic Association.
He was reminded of his childhood with people in the magazines during the Harlem Renaissance. So his work morphed to represent more of the Civil Rights movement.
His time being misrepresented as a white person helped him to experience the fragmented racism, which showed up in his work as a collage artist.
Romare Bearden
600
Using her mother's sewing machine, she learned from the Boys and Girls Club how to read and design Simplicity sewing patterns.
She graduated from Hampton University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Arts.
She has a Hollywood Star on the walk of Fame.
She has won an Academy Award winner for Wakanda Forever costumes and recently, Sinners was her 5th nomination.
Her work is called Afrofuturism costume work.
600
True or False, this is a painting of Michelle Obama, completed as her First Lady Portrait and painted by Amy Sherald.
True, the painter is Amy Sherald
600
Leonardo
Donatello
Raphael
Michaelangelo
600
This woman would be denied an education in the deep south, head north to DC to become -of all things- a teacher. Bless her heart, she taught in the DC system for over 30 years and is considered a DC legend.
Alma Thomas
800
He taught himself to draw upside-down so white clients could read blue print plans from across the table, but wouldn't shake his hand.
Orphaned at four, he rose from foster care to become one of the most sought-after architects in America.
He became the first Black Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
Paul R Williams
800
Daily Double! How much will you wager?
True
800
This Iranian artist was exiled after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. I wonder what her photo and film work will look now given the current political climate?
Shirin Neshat
800
True, Leonardo da Vinci
800
She has been nominated more than any other costume designer for her futuristic work.
Ruth E Carter
1000
Denied an education in the deep south, she would go onto teach for four decades! Dubbed one of DC's greatest treasures, her acrylics consist of broad, mosaic-like patches of vibrant color applied in concentric circles or vertical stripes.
Alma Thomas
1000
True or False
Ricollin Medley is a self-taught artist, who struggled for supplies initially.
Yebo Gallery picked up his work, he landed a show in Sweden and he now receives supplies from the gallery.
Primarily Line Art
Hatching (lines that don't touch)
Cross-Hatching ( lines that DO touch, overlap etc.)
Stippling (dots)
False. This is Mrs. Dawes IG friend Natie.Jay aka Nathi Tembe.
1000
This South African sensation uses her Florentine painterly skills to capture her local community in Cape Town, South Africa. Hint, hint, here's her mom on her wedding day.
Alice Toich
1000
Painter of the Mona Lisa.... for starters
Leonardo da Vinci
1000
Pan American Unity was made by this fresco artist, you could say his job was to be the Father of Mexican Muralism...
Diego Rivera