...Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons Cullen Washington’s work exudes energy, rawness, and a visceral urban vibe, manifesting a fighting engagement with painting practice, painting history, and painting’s entrapments and luring out into the open the hidden implications of masculinity and race versus the...

...Shawn Michelle Smith This article considers Augustus Washington’s mid-nineteenth-century Liberian daguerreotypes as propositions about a new nation. It suggests that Washington understood the power of his images as propaganda for viewers in the United States and also as documents that registered...

... Liberal Studies at Western Washington University in to cut-paper and installation artist, Evans has Bellingham, Washington. developed her practice intuitively, and this is one of its greatest strengths. She has resisted pressure to represent a particular community or ideology, Notes or to adhere...

... expos• University, Washington, DC. es their power as social discourse. Le Franc represents an important milestone in the ongoing search for different and novel ways of filming African experiences and desires. It is an Notes exemplary instance of a highly imaginative artist...

... is the Phillips Collection–George By this point, Ringgold had already mounted a Washington University Postdoctoral Fellow for 2014– new show, her Black Light paintings, to favorable 15. She focuses her research and teaching on modern reviews.35 A marked departure from Die, the new and...

... IN YOU IS THE NATION CALL­ ING.”9 It is “NationTime The use of high-­energy color and words were Napoleon Jones-Henderson­ graduated from George elements we saw all day and every day through­ Washington Carver High School and the Art Insti- out the Diaspora and community. We were not tute...

... been curator at the National and will be the only artists creating site-­specific Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, in works of art for Earth Matters. They are Strijdom Washington, DC, since May 2008. She has also held van der Merwe of South Africa, El Anatsui of positions as...

... black artists, such as Collection The Museum of Modern Art, New York John Riddle, Tim Washington, Charles White, and Photo courtesy the artist and Tilton Gallery, New York David Hammons. Around 1970–71 Otis College of tural experiences. Outterbridge was...

...• macabre commentary" lacking in true aesthetic ture Death, and both works were most likely derived 104* Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art Prentiss Taylor, Christ in Alabana, 1932 Lithograph. Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C...

...Jennie Hirsh This review examines the midcareer retrospective Yinka Shonibare MBE in the context of its third and final venue, the National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC. The survey featured examples of the artist’s familiar interests—the complex relationship between colonial and...

..., and incubating the early careers of Emma Amos and others. This essay looks at how Spiral’s trip to the March on Washington and its only exhibition demonstrate a lack of aesthetic and social cohesion in the group’s main collective activities, making it a typical example of post-1945 art collectives...

... individualism that embraces the overriding challenge confronted by Spiral, an artistic alliance that represented African American artists in the March on Washington and that sought to formulate an ongoing artistic response to the civil rights movement. Copyright © 2011 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art...

... African Art, this review traces the patterns of history and ideology Essaydi incorporates into her images. The exhibition in Washington enables visitors to connect concepts that have evolved over time in Essaydi’s work; this review forges these connections and begins a discussion of their importance to...

... Animals in African Art: From the Familiar to the Marvelous OBITUARIES NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART, WASHINGTON, DC...

... environment of New York and Washington D.C., ized that country prior to the revolution, and further strengthened where she has lived for more than two decades. by the diasporic experience of her subsequent years. Living in Atnafu is an artist who likes to...

... County Virginia, who sanctioned Bernstein, P. (2005). The First Waco Horror: The the lynching forms of punishment (Gunn, 1996). Lynching of Jesse Washington and the Rise of the The resources listed below are an attempt to capture NAACP (1st ed College Station: Texas A&M key...

... into Peter and Willick Nka • 17 Timothy Washington, Love, 1969. Engraving on aluminum with auto primer paint and nails, 36 × 36 in. Collection of Aurelia and Warren Brooks a particularly dynamic venue where many of the issues...

... Byrd, the renowned musician and This sharing, of course, includes African artists educator in Washington, DC. and intellectuals across the full spectrum of artistic AfriCOBRA work is characterized by high-­ disciplines and in the humanities as well.3 We have energy color, rhythmic linear effects...

... “bought from an African Ship in and the many people I know in the community have August 1759.” Far more incendiary, however, is this very strong sense of being part of this oceanic Washington’s admission that these four men “went world and diaspora.”17 off without the least...

... Museum of African American Cruz, CA: Museum 2.0, 2010). See also Ngaire Blankenberg, History and Culture, Smithsonian, opening in September 2016 “Participatory Exhibitions,” in Manual of Museum Exhibitions, ed. in Washington, DC, on the National Mall, and the National Barry Lord and Maria Piacente...