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[teacherartexchange] African American - African Art sites of interest

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From: Judy Decker (judy.decker_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Sat Jan 20 2007 - 08:33:07 PST

Dear Art Educators,

Here are some things of interest from the Smithsonian..... Please
continue to share good stuff you find with me (on or off list). I
check all links sent to me. There has been some interest (other than
me -- smile).

http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/harmon/index.htm
Breaking Racial Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection
Selected portraits from the 1920s

http://www.npg.si.edu/col/Amistad/index.htm
The Amistad Case
Portraits illustrating this signal event to the Civil War.
Some of the larger images are missing - but I bet you could find them
elsewhere on line.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/numismatics/survivin/danatext.htm
Surviving Images, Forgotten People
Native Americans, Women, and African Americans on Early United States Bank Notes
I see a lesson in this.... ask me if you want my ideas.

http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/noir/index.htm
Le Tumulte Noir: Paul Colin's Jazz Age Portfolio
Lithographs capturing the exuberant jazz music and dance that dazzled
Paris in the 1920s

http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/lewis/intro.html
Cleopatra Lost and Found
The life and work of Edmonia Lewis, a nineteenth-century African
American sculptor

http://www.nmafa.si.edu/exhibits/dialogue/intro.htm
Transatlantic Dialogue: In and Out of Africa
Explores the varied ways that African and African American artists
interpret their ideas and identities

http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/awash/index.htm
  A Durable Memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington, African
American Daguerreotypist
The life of one of the few identified African American daguerreotypists
I have a lesson idea to go along with this.... ask if interested.

http://www.nmafa.si.edu/exhibits/kente/index.htm
Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity
A look at how this cloth evokes and celebrates a shared cultural heritage
Use this with the elementary lesson idea from Dick Blick (I posted
this the other day).

Looking for information on African American women artist? Check some
of these resources:
http://www.si.edu/RESOURCE/FAQ/nmah/afamwom.htm

Elsewhere on the web....

African American Art on the Internet - LOTS of on line resources to
check (I have not checked all of these links - yet):
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavawww.htm

African Americans in the Visual Arts
A Historical Perspective
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavaahp.htm
I do have a link to this page.

Must get book (if you do not have a good African American History book).
A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present (Hardcover)
by Romare Bearden, Harry Henderson
Rave reviews on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/History-African-American-Artists-1792-Present/dp/0394570162/ref=pd_sim_b_1/104-8410466-7019107

A nice addition to this would be this book:
The Artist Portrait Series: Images of Contemporary African American
Artists (Hardcover)
by Fern Logan, Margaret Rose Vendryes (Foreword), Deborah Willis (Introduction)
http://www.amazon.com/Artist-Portrait-Contemporary-African-American/dp/0809323796

From the National Museum of African Art:
http://www.nmafa.si.edu/exhibits/past.html
See what is on line in contemporary:
http://www.nmafa.si.edu/exhibits/contemporary1.html

From Folk Art Museum:
http://www.folkartmuseum.org/default.asp?id=1153
ANCESTRY AND INNOVATION:
AFRICAN AMERICAN ART FROM THE COLLECTION
some nice works on line.

National Center of Afro-American Artists
http://www.ncaaa.org/index.html

This should be enough now to keep us busy (smile).
I will be updating pages on Incredible Art Resources.

Regards,

Judy Decker
Incredible Art Department
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/
Incredible Art Resources
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/ 

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