Don't Miss Our African American “Legacy” at the Art Museum
Categories: Local Interest , African American , Arts & Crafts
If you haven’t seen Making a Legacy, Living the Legacy at the Cincinnati Art Museum, this weekend is your last chance!
Sunday is the final day for this exhibition of the work of five African American artists from the tri-state area, each using a different medium. The result is a very rich show – Joyce Young paintings, Melvin Grier photographs, Carolyn Mazloomi quilts, Ellen Price prints, and a Thom Phelps installation. Making a Legacy was mounted by guest curator Thom Shaw, another local African American artist.
More of Grier’s photographs and an interview with him can be seen in the video Bearing Witness: Melvin Grier. Prints by Shaw and Price are included in Cincinnati Portfolio III: A Porfolio of Ten Prints. And be sure to explore the beautiful work in Mazloomi’s book Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary African American Quilts.
Here are some of the Library’s many books on the African American art legacy:
- African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum by Gwen Everett
- Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation by Michael D. Harris
- The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past by Lisa Gail Collins
- To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities by Richard J. Powell
- Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas by Halima Taha
- Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century by Richard J. Powell
