Painters
Famous African American Painter who said "I imagine it, and I start drawing."
Who is Blanch Ackers?
Which African American sculptor once said: "All my life I have been interested in trying to capture the spiritual quality I see and feel in people, and I feel that the human figure as God made it, is the best means of expressing this spirit in man." ?
Who is Richmond Barthe`?
In 1994, a cartoonist directed an animated video featuring the hip hop singer KRS-One, called "Break The Chain"; Marvel Comics even published Break the Chain as a comic book packaged with a read-along hip-hop audiocassette - who are they?
Who is Kyle Baker?
Jules Allen is a photographer & tenured professor in the Art & Photography Department of Queensboro Community College, City University of New York, where he has taught for two decades. Allen's most prominent project, The Black Marching Band, depicts which marching band?
What is the Morgan State University marching band?
which female fiber artist is known for using a variety of materials including human hair and combs to address race, culture, class, and history? Her beaded headdress assemblages and braided wig series of the late 1990s, which received critical acclaim, evoked African traditions of personal adornment and moved these common forms into the realm of personal and political expression .
Who is Sonya Clark?
In 1940, this artist completed "Tobacco Farmer", the portrait of a young black farmer in white overalls and a blue shirt with a youthful yet serious look upon his face, sitting in front of the landscape and buildings he works on and in.
Who is Charles Alston?
Which female African American scultpor , born in 1953, participated in the "Twentieth Century American Sculpture" exhibition held at the White House in 1996 ?
Who is Chakaia Booker?
Which African American illustrator, was best known for drawing early comics heroines such as the costumed crimefighter Phantom Lady, and romance comics. Active in the 1940s and 1950s Golden Age of comic books, he is the first known African-American artist to find success in the comic-book industry.
Who is Matt Baker?
In the 1830's-1840's, photographer & abolitionist, James Presley Ball, learned the art of daguerreotype photography from John B. Bailey of Boston; the two men connected over what shared life & social experience?
What is they both were navigating the complexities of being free men of color during the time of slavery in the United States?
This graphic artist was a member of the Black Panther Party from 1967-1980's; as a revolutionary artist and the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party, they created iconography to represent black-American oppression. Who are they?
Who is Emory Douglas?
In what year did William Cooper Nell acknowledge Edward Mitchell Bannister's rising artistic status in The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution for his "The Ship Outward Bound" painting?
When is 1855?
African American Sculptor Frank J. Brown, created a bust of which iconic civil rights activist, that is currently housed in Municipal Building in Madison, WI?
Who is Martin Luther King, jr.?
In what year did Darrin Bell win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning?
When is 2019?
Which photographic artist shot photographic portraits of black Americans in a pictorialist style? Their photograph of black leaders appeared on the cover of the NAACP's magazine The Crisis beginning in the 1910s, and later founded & headed up the photography department at the Tuskegee Institute.
Who is C.M. Battey?
Which female artist is an American filmmaker and media artist who deals with issues of race, gender, and sexual orientation in her work?
Who is Leah Gilliam?
McArthur Binion's 2019 exhibit Ghosts:Rythms and Haints is on display in which museum?
Where is the Mississippi Museum of Art?
Which sculptor is best known for a bas relief portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt that may have inspired the profile found on the obverse of the dime ?
Who is Selma Burke?
Eugene "Gene" Bilbrew was an African-American vocal group singer, and cartoonist, but she was also known as what else?
What is a bizarre art pioneer?
Booker T. Washington enlisted the artistic skills of which African American photographer, to document the last decade of his life?
Who is Arthur P. Bedou, from New Orleans?
Once enslaved by William McWillie, the governor of Mississippi,this 19th century artist is known for his relief carvings that depict common tools and objects from daily life including cutlery, scissors, hammers, and pitchers. Who is it?
Who is William Howard?
Which artist is best known for her works often described as "spiritual abstractions", and is the co-founder of the Harlem Children's Art Carnival?
Who is Betty Blayton?
This scultpor's first major work was a nine-foot bronze statue of A. Philip Randolph, leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Commissioned in 1986, the piece is displayed in Boston's Back Bay commuter train station and is featured on the Boston Women's Heritage Trail; who are they?
Who is Tina Allen?
Charles Boyce is an African American cartoonist known for his syndicated comic panel called what?
What is Compu-Toon?
Which artist is famously known for being South Carolina's first African American photographer?
Who is Elise Forrest Harleston?
This African-American fiber artist, who learned to quilt in the middle of her life, and quickly became known in the world of fiber art for her abstract and narrative quilts depicting the African-American experience, has a prominent display at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art - who is she?
Who is Gwendolyn Ann Magee?