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AfriCOBRA was founded on the South Side of Chicago by a group of artists intent on defining a "black aesthetic." AfriCOBRA artists were associated with the Black Arts Movement in America, a movement that began in the mid-1960s and that celebrated culturally-specific expressions of the contemporary Black community in the realms of literature, theater, dance and the visual arts. [6]
Black Abstractionism is a term that refers to a modern arts movement that celebrates Black artists of African-American and African ancestry, whether as direct descendants of Africa or of a combined mixed-race heritage, who create work that is not representational, presenting the viewer with abstract expression, imagery, and ideas.
The MLK library was founded by the Syracuse student organization SAAS (Student African American Society) in 1968. It is currently one of the few university libraries in the country that has an entire library with a dedicated African-American collection [ 39 ] [ 40 ] It consists of video, art, non-print titles, books and journals.
The American Negro Academy (ANA), founded in Washington, DC in 1897, was the first organization in the United States to support African-American academic scholarship. It operated until 1928, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and encouraged African Americans to undertake classical academic studies and liberal arts .
On December 7, 2007, the Afro-American Cultural Center, which had said earlier in the year that their new facility would be named for Harvey Gantt, revealed the formal name The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts and Culture. [14] [15] This was later changed to Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture. [16]
The National Center of Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) is a center in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1968 by Elma Lewis to "preserv[e] and foster the cultural arts heritage of black peoples worldwide through arts teaching, and the presentation of professional works in all fine arts disciplines."
Alma Woodsey Thomas (September 22, 1891 – February 24, 1978) was an African-American artist and teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century.
Haitians and African Americans: A Heritage of Tragedy and Hope. University Press of Florida, 2001. ISBN 978-0-8130-2119-5; Vendryes, Margaret Rose. Barthé: A Life in Sculpture. University Press of Mississippi, 2008. ISBN 1604730927; Zabunyan, Elvan. Black Is a Color: A History of African-American Artists. Paris: Editions Dis Voir, 2005. ISBN ...