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... from the pages of his father’s thirty-year-old passbook. Tearing, collaging, flattening, printing, Xeroxing, and reconfiguring the document, Nemasetoni signals the fundamental instability of the passbook and the potential to upheave its function, composition, and materiality, and in doing so, joins...

...Daniel Haxall In 1997 Kehinde Wiley made his first trip to Africa to meet his father, a Nigerian man he had never known. This journey resonated deeply with the artist, who returned several times and established a studio practice there. Wiley documented each visit through portraiture, creating...

..., local articulation of black consciousness on Chicago’s South Side in 1967 in order to illustrate how local dimensions of black consciousness relate to the making of a global black consciousness. Crawford’s starting point is a photo archive of Bob Crawford, her father, a photographer who worked...

...Michael McMillan I have been always struck by how men of my father’s generation were so well dressed in those iconic black-and-white documentary photographs depicting their arrival after a three-week transatlantic journey by sea. They wore neatly pressed suits with a white breast pocket...

... to embark on her "Father tion of poetry, paintings, and installa• and humane limits. Ironically, despite Quest," inspired and driven by her tions by the late poet and his artist his standing among his peers and father's work and their common...

... from the community: Nelson Magellan, to the elaborate ritualism of the catholic aesthetic, and to the Gonzalez, 39, and incarcerated felon doing time for drug-related burglary, natural flamboyance of the cultures of Africa's Guinea Coast; that ajiaco and Nelson Gonzalez jr., 15; father...

... the means to act, presents the neighborhood, like the local flower vendor. But to cheating a sensitive image of an oppressed African womanhood. customers and to the irresponsible, absentee father of her daugh• In contrast to the voiceless, dramatically expressionless...

... persecute me for this, and who was disturbed by this, was my bio• and lesbian sibling relationships and forms of identity within the context logical father. Because of his repression, part of my desire, my identity, of the black family. The film was also a platform to explore queer identi• retreated...

...? Gordon Parks: I can't remember having been inclined to be an artist or anything of that sort. [LAUGHS] Yeah, I do remember—we had an old upright piano I used to plunk on, you know, and at 6 years old my father didn't like the idea that a boy played the piano for some...

... and articles, scored concertos, directed films, and played piano on the concert stage. Guided by his father's advice, he transformed his own life...

...• turn of the century and as vehicle ences the aesthetic tremors and for spiritual cleansing. cultural aftershocks of what within As the myth of the father- the exhibition remains primarily a nation-state declines, a contest...

... traditions that shaped the character of mod• ern Nigerian art. These include the indigenous aesthetic tradi• tions of Nigeria (his father was an Igbo sculptor) and the European modes of symbolic communication appropriated by Nigerian artists during the colonial period. Enwonwu and four other students...

... are entirely based on Melkamzer and his father Melkamzer Yehun s accounts. I have worked with them for almost four years, and I still do not have a full understanding of telsem art and the knowledge imbued in it. The secret of telsem s meanings are well-protected through generations. Henok Melkamzer was only...

...• what they mean." She recalls that her important concept. Transparency cant ways. She says that, since moving to 12 father sang songs to her from Santeria in is about memory. Also. I...

... to present your personal experiences sider. His mother was born into a full-blown nomad group in you are unfit for this school. A cruel and humiliating remark, I Mauritania, while his father's family hailed from a border area in thought!' that region. Dramane's great...

... Anderson's current exhibition at June Kelly cated space where one does not always image, and in #3 the same image of his father Gallery. An exhibition whose prime location...

... the unrepeatable, eternal Jewish-Christo-lslamic moment welcomed in over 200years. Skunder's vision turns toward the mysteries that "Pagan" sur• Skunder was a student at Tafari Makonnen School when his father, Colonel faces conceal—not in their eternity...

... Elaine Freeman (Thomas), renowned as the training ground for the Tuskegee who later became chair of the Art Department at Airmen, another government-­sponsored experi- the institute. Freeman’s father, who was paralyzed, ment, and served as a bastion of higher education painted with his toes. Alonzo...

... about my father. His name is Kamal Youssef and he was a member of Art et Liberté and the Groupe de L Art Contemporain in Egypt. He is 91 and still active, living on a farm in Pennsylvania. I am a sculptor and have a piece in an exhibit at the Chautauqua Institution s Annual contemporary show. The juror...

... At the close of the smARTpower program, a her father’s journals, Ogunji embarked on a medita- painting of civil rights leader Fumilayo Kuti, the tive journey. Her one-minute video My father and mother of the renowned musician Fela Anikulapo I dance in outer space (2011) is a futuristic attempt Kuti...