Apr 19, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending, Profiles
Clementine Hunter is perhaps one of the most important folk artists in American history. Born at Hidden Hill Plantation in Louisiana, she spent her youth as a farm laborer with her parents, working for the owners of the plantation. She never learned to read or write,...
Apr 9, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, News & Trending
Bisa Butler’s stunning art quilts are vivid, bold, and lavish in detail. Made from hundreds of pieces of cloth and millions of stitches each, every one is a portrait. A painting in textiles. Originally a high school teacher, she began quilting with the leftover...
Apr 2, 2021 | Art, Culture, Exhibitions, Museums, News & Trending, Resources
The Louvre’s entire collection is one of the largest in the world, with approximately half a million paintings, sculptures, drawings, writings, and artifacts. They span most of recorded history, from a 9000-year-old neolithic clay figure up into the very recent...
Mar 18, 2021 | Art, Exhibitions, Gallery
Wandering around the Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Gallery on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia at a contemplative pace is a bit of an unusual art patron. Gordon is short, skinny, and black. Oh, and it’s a robot. “It is a stand in for a...
Oct 30, 2020 | Art, Exhibitions, New York, News & Trending
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Nicole Fleetwood grew up in a small, poor town in southwest Ohio, and saw friends, neighbors, and family members go to prison, some for large crimes, most for small ones. She kept in touch with her relatives while they were incarcerated, trading back and forth...
Oct 9, 2020 | Culture, Exhibitions, Gallery, News & Trending, Organizations
It’s common for modern historical pieces – films, novels, etc – to include black figures in ways that previous iterations of the genre never did. For instance, the BBC series Merlin included a black Guinevere, played by Angel Coulby. Netflix’s 2020 series...
