ALL WORK FOR 3rd QUARTER is DUE

FRIDAY, APRIL 7th by 4:00 p.m.!!!

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. Thomas is best known for the “exuberant”, colorful, abstract paintings that she created after her retirement from a 35-year career teaching art at Washington’s Shaw Junior High School. (Wikipedia)

https://americanart.si.edu/artist/alma-thomas-4778

Georgia O’Keeffe was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. 

Link to Georgia O’Keeffe Museum: https://collections.okeeffemuseum.org/

Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist who works in sculpture and installation, and is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art.

Link to Yayoi Kusama biography and artwork: https://hirshhorn.si.edu/kusama/yayoi-kusama/

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter who lived from 1907-1954 who is well-known for her self-portraits. She is also known for her paintings of Mexican artifacts and nature. Her work is considered surrealist. Surrealism is a movement in art and literature which looks to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind.

Frida Kahlo website to explore: https://artsandculture.google.com/project/frida-kahlo

Updates: Malala Essay Rough Draft now due Friday, March 3 India Scrapbook Project due Friday, March 10

ALL late work and regrades still due by Tuesday, February 27 by 4:00 p.m.

Let truth destroy the dividing prejudices of nationality and teach universal love without distinction of race, merit or rank. 

–Carter G. Woodson

Article about the descendants of Carter G. Woodson, and their ties to both enslavement and slave ownership: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/19/1154563737/woodsons-slaves-black-history-month-family-heal

UPDATE: Malala Essay Rough Drafts now due Friday, March 3rd

ALL WORK currently on Canvas gradebook

STILL DUE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 by 4:00 p.m.

FOR QUARTER 3 MIDTERMS 

Bisa Butler was born in New Jersey, the daughter of a college president and a French teacher. Butler’s artistic talent was first seen at the age of four, when she won a blue ribbon in an art competition. Bisa Butler was a high school art teacher for 13 years. She created a portrait of Nobel Peace Prize recipient Wangari Maathai (Kenyan activist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize). This portrait became the cover for the 2020 Time Magazine issue honoring the 100 Women of the Year.

More about Bisa: https://www.npr.org/2021/08/15/1025950962/black-lives-are-celebrated-in-bisa-butlers-extraordinary-technicolor-quilts

Let truth destroy the dividing prejudices of nationality and teach universal love without distinction of race, merit or rank. 

–Carter G. Woodson

Article about the descendants of Carter G. Woodson, and their ties to both enslavement and slave ownership: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/19/1154563737/woodsons-slaves-black-history-month-family-heal

This week’s artist: Kehinde Wiley, born in 1977, paints realistic portraits of African Americans in the context of Old Master paintings. He was commissioned in 2017 to paint of portrait of former President Obama for the Smithsonian, which has portraits of all the previous American presidents. To learn more about this artist, go to this link: https://kehindewiley.com/

If you are interested in the street art above, check out this link to learn more about the artist and other street artists: https://interestingengineering.com/culture/25-amazing-images-of-3d-street-art

Artist Arghavan Khosravi: Arghavan Khosravi is an Iranian-born American visual artist, and illustrator. She is known for her three dimensional paintings with works that cross between the traditions of European Renaissance and Persian miniature; with themes of freedom, exile, and empowerment. See more at: https://www.arghavankhosravi.com/

About the mural above: Eduardo Kobra is a street artist from Brazil. He makes kaleidoscopic portraits of leading international personalities who have fought in the name of peace. Kobra has said, “The street is a way to socialize, to have fun and also to protest against exclusion.” To see more of Kobra’s art, check out this link: https://www.eduardokobra.com/