Category: Visual Arts

• 40 Days of Black Art. Day 4: Michael Cunningham

  Day 4: Photographer Michael Cunningham   Three Things: From his official bio: “Cunningham chooses to work in black and white; this allows him to express what is in his soul.  Black and white photography is very personal, he says and reaches deep inside the viewer, making them study the photograph for what it represents outside…

  Simone Monique Barnes

  March 8, 2014

  Americana, Arts, Black History and Culture, Church, Ethnic, Regional and National Identity, Nation Building, Visual Arts

  African American, artist, church, church women, Crowns, Michael Cunningham, Photography, portraits

• 40 Days of Black Art. Day 3: Betye Saar

  This mixed media, collage, assemblage and installation artist’s work often includes images of stereotyped African-American figures from folk culture and advertising, like Aunt Jemima, Uncle Tom, Little Black Sambo, African ritual and tribal objects, African American folk traditions and/or family memorabilia. Three things: Her signature piece (one of her better-known and controversial pieces) is entitled “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima.”…

  Simone Monique Barnes

  March 7, 2014

  Americana, Arts, Black History and Culture, Ethnic, Regional and National Identity, Nation Building, Visual Arts

  40 Days of Black Art, African American, art, assemblage, Betye Saar, California, collage, Los Angeles

• 40 Days of Black Art. Day 2: Mark Dukes, Saint John Coltrane

  Day 2: Mark Dukes The paintings of iconographer Deacon Mark Duke of St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church live at the intersection of jazz, visual art, and spirituality. Prints of Duke’s iconography are available for sale online in the St John Coltrane Church gallery. Three things: Mark Dukes is an ordained deacon and the official icon painter of…

  Simone Monique Barnes

  March 6, 2014

  Americana, Arts, Black History and Culture, Church, Nation Building, Performing Arts, Visual Arts

  40 Days of Black Art, African Orthodox Church, California, God, iconography, jazz, John coltrane, Love Supreme, Mark Dukes, Oakland, painter, saint, San Francisco