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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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ART: African American is an attempt to remedy this omission by uncovering the contributions of visual artists of African descent in the Americas.
African-American artists visualized not only the hopes and aspirations of the working class but also the tensions between newcomers and longtime residents in Black urban areas.
It featured and nurtured all kinds of African American culture and was an especially important home for artists who made major contributions to the Culture of Resistance.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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And while Leimert is a center for African American art and artists, the Village warmly embraced people of all nationalities and valued its role as a place where people could learn more about each other and on that basis help and support one another and stand up for each other in the face of need or attacks.
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Sam Hayden,
Gothic Nightclub Owner
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Black artists are directed to a gallery that features African American artists by “white” galleries because there is no perceived racial crossover in the local market.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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African American patrons would like to see the Museum collect and exhibit the work of “important contemporary black artists” (not just folk artists), and wish for more black players in the Symphony.
African American art and artists, Samella Lewis.
Are you working with any African-American artists on the record?
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Early African-American folk artists tended to carve cane handles into heads or faces.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Strickland is best known for a long line of works documenting African American culture beginning in the 1940s when America was still a strictly segregated society offering little opportunity or encouragement to black artists.
Duncanson was one of the first African American artists to achieve international success, and his Taft murals are considered one of the finest suites of domestic murals dating from before the Civil War.
For like African American scientists, African American artists have been given little or no attention in histories of the United States.
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