Louise Parks (born 1945) is an American painter. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Pratt Institute, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Hunter College. Her work has been seen in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including Afro-American Artists: New York and Boston at the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in 1970. [1] She has also been active as a curator, working with Milton Brown on a show of the work of Jacob Lawrence at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1974. [2]
The National Center of Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) is a center in Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts founded in 1968 by Elma Lewis to "preserv[e] and foster the cultural arts heritage of black peoples worldwide through arts teaching, and the presentation of professional works in all fine arts disciplines." Although the organization's name specifies African American artists, the organizational mandate includes all African diasporic art. The NCAAA is the largest independent black cultural arts institution in New England, United States. Its alumni have distinguished themselves in the performing arts internationally.
Anna Bella Geiger is a Brazilian multi-disciplinary artist of Jewish-Polish ancestry, and professor at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. She lives in Rio de Janeiro, and her work, characterized by the use of different media, is held by galleries and private collections in the US, China, Brazil and Europe.
Adela Akers was a Spanish-born textile and fiber artist residing in the United States. She was Professor Emeritus at the Tyler School of Art. Her career as an artist spans the "whole history of modern fiber art." Her work is in the Renwick Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Art and Design. Her papers are at the Archives of American Art.
Vivian E. Browne was an American artist. Born in Laurel, Florida, Browne was mostly known for her painting series called Little Men and her Africa series. She is also known for linking abstraction to nature in her tree paintings and in a series of abstract works made with layers of silk that were influenced by her travels to China. She was an activist, professor, and has received multiple awards for her work. According to her mother, Browne died at age 64 from bladder cancer.
Rebecca Salsbury James (1891–1968) was a self-taught American painter, born in London, England of American parents who were traveling with the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. She settled in New York City, where she married photographer Paul Strand. Following her divorce from Strand, James moved to Taos, New Mexico where she fell in with a group that included Mabel Dodge Luhan, Dorothy Brett, and Frieda Lawrence. In 1937 she married William James, a businessman from Denver, Colorado who was then operating the Kit Carson Trading Company in Taos. She remained in Taos until her death in 1968.
Ann Purcell is an American painter.
Winnie Owens-Hart is an American ceramist and sculptor.
Harriet Arline Forte Kennedy was an American museum administrator, sculptor, and singer.
Ellen Banks was an American painter and multi-media artist using only printed musical scores as inspiration for her paintings.
Yvonne Pickering Carter is an American painter, performance artist, and educator. She has worked in media including watercolor and collage.
Cheryl Laemmle is an American contemporary surrealist painter of figures, animals, and imaginary landscapes.
Stephanie Elaine Pogue (1944–2002) was an American professor, printmaker, artist, and curator. Her artistic interests included the portrayal of women and the human figure.
Rozeal is a contemporary American artist known for her colourful and complex cross cultural painting technique. She best known for her narrative canvases commenting on cultural, racial and sexual identity. A large part of her work touches on the differences between appropriation and appreciation. Ultimately, Rozeals work and portrayal of pornographic prints illustrates a set of politically powerful messages.
Nancy Carman is an American ceramist.
Vera Jackson was a "pioneer woman photographer in the black press". She photographed African-American social life and celebrity culture in 1930s and 1940s Los Angeles. Noted photographic subjects included major league baseball player Jackie Robinson, educator Mary McLeod Bethune, and actresses Dorothy Dandridge, Hattie McDaniel and Lena Horne.
Patricia González is a Colombian-born American artist.
Elizabeth Sawyer Norton (1887–1985) was an American artist, known for her bronze sculptures, paintings, and printmaking. The subject of her work often featured animals, landscapes and/or portraits. She lived in Palo Alto, California, from 1919 until her death in 1985.
Grace Knowlton was an American sculptor and photographer who was known for her outdoor sculptures. Her work has been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other venues.
Lillian Wolock Elliott was an American fiber artist, and textile designer. She is known for her innovative basket craft.
Samuel Joseph Brown Jr. (1907–1994) was a watercolorist, printmaker, and educator. He was the first African American artist hired to produce work for the Public Works of Art Project, a precursor to the Work Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Brown often depicted the lives of African Americans in his paintings. He worked primarily in watercolor and oils, and he produced portraits, landscapes and prints.