An Exhibition of Black Women Artists (2024)

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Who are the black women artists collective? ›

(WWA) was a collective of Black women artists affiliated with the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. It included artists such as Dindga McCannon, Kay Brown, Faith Ringgold, Carol Blank, Jerri Crooks, Charlotte Kâ (Richardson), and Gylbert co*ker.

WWA also published a well-articulated brochure "Where We At" Black Women Artists: A Tapestry of Many Fine Threads that featured the history and mission of the organization, while some members of the collective published their contributions in the Feminist Art Journal and Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and ...

Kara Walker is one of the most influential and recognizable contemporary Black artists. Walker is a multidisciplinary artist working with drawing, painting, and sculpture. She is best known for her black-on-white silhouettes.

David Driskell pioneered the field of African American art history as curator ofTwo Centuries of Black American Art for LACMA in 1976, when he was Professor and Chair of the Fisk University art department and director of Fisk's Carl Van Vechten Gallery.

Aretha Franklin

She is among the best-selling musicians, selling an astounding 75 million CDs. Franklin won numerous honors during her career, including the National Medal of Arts and eighteen Grammy Awards.

Faith Ringgold (born Faith Willi Jones; October 8, 1930 – April 13, 2024) was an American painter, author, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, and intersectional activist, perhaps best known for her narrative quilts.

Henry Ossawa Tanner (June 21, 1859 – May 25, 1937) was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study at the Académie Julian and gained acclaim in French artistic circles.

Who was the first African American artist to receive an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York? ›

“The Sculpture of William Edmondson,” in 1937, was also the Museum's first exhibition devoted solely to the work of a black artist; too, it was Edmondson's debut in a fine-art context.

COBA (Collective of Black Artists) is Canada's leading dance company blending traditional Afro-Caribbean dance and music with contemporary themes and dance styles.

BAFC were a group of Black British and diaspora artists who engaged with African Caribbean and Asian popular and political culture in Britain. Its members were John Akomfrah, Reece Auguiste, Edward George, Lina Gopaul, Avril Johnson, Clare Joseph (replaced by David Lawson in 1985) and Trevor Mathison.

About the Black Music Collective

The Black Music Collective is an advisory group of music industry leaders who will speak openly about new and emerging opportunities in Black music and identify ways to drive Black representation.

The Black Artists Grant (BAG) offered by Creative Debuts as a no-strings attached financial support to help black artists. They can spend the grant on whatever they want – be that make new work, buy equipment or materials, travel, research, visit exhibitions or conferences, or to even just cover some life expenses.