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- What is your age range? (Must be 18 years or older)
- 55 - 60
- Are you of African descent?
- Yes
- What type of artist do you call yourself?
- Painter
- What arts organizations, groups or businesses are you affiliated with?
- The Society for Arts In Healthcare, VMFA Friends of African & African American Art, The Black History Museum and Cultural City of Virginia.
- What is your vision for the future of Black Artist?
- African American art is a Neo-Western art form. It is a legitimate and autonomous culture-based art movement. It is generally treated like it is the illegitimate child of Western art. African American art has traditionally been ignored by the mainstream art establishments and treated just a little different from the rest of the Western art family, which includes European and American art.
It is marginally included in the museums, galleries and Western art history books.
My research has led me to concluded that (1) there is a difference between “art that is created by an African American” and “African American art”; and (2) African American art is a unique cultural phenomenon.
Ultimately it is African American people and Black artists that have to determine what is and what isn’t African American art. We must definitively answer the question: “what is African American visual art?" We need to define it ourselves. African American artists, as professionals in the field, have to identify and redefine African American visual art for the art world. It is now time to actively campaign for African American art academically as a discipline, philosophically as a cultural phenomenon and commercially as a viable industry. We must push for galleries dedicated to African American Art (art that speaks to, for and about African American culture) Then publicly funded museums will be duty-bound to increase it’s holdings of that genre of art. Otherwise we will continue to be marginally included in the future purchases for American Art Galleries.
African American visual art has not received the same societal credibility as African American Jazz music, dance or theater, nevertheless, the visual art of African American culture continues to develop and progress as the soulful creative expression and unique aesthetic of a distinctive people.
- Please give us a link to your website, webpage, webblog, est.
- http://www.bestblackartimages.com
- How did you find out about this network?
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