Sculpture
Edmonia Lewis – African American, Native American Sculptor
Edmonia Lewis was a nineteenth century American sculptor of mixed African American and Native American heritage. Meg Barstow gave a presentation about Edmonia Lewis on 24 February 2009 to the Art Appr...
Edmonia Lewis! The First American Woman Sculptor of Color
Follow me on social media! Instagram 🌈 https://www.instagram.com/_artstorylab​ For further reading 📚 Kirsten Pai Buick, Child of Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black a...
Artist sculpts lifelike figurines of Black heroes throughout American history | Secretly Awesome
Acori Honzo remembers growing up in the 1980s playing with action figures resembling heroes like He-Man and Luke Skywalker. But he doesn’t remember playing with any toys that looked like him....
African-American Sculpture Tour
This summer, The Sculpture Center in Cleveland released a tour of public artwork in Columbus by artists that are often overlooked. Using the Sculpture Center’s map as our guide, we visit with several ...
Black Excellist: 10 Trailblazing Black Visual Artists
Black Excellist: 10 Trailblazing Black Visual Artists http://www.blackexcellist.com 00:00 Intro 1:35 Gordon Parks 3:11 Jean-Michel Basquiat 4:33 James Van Der Zee 5:40 Augusta Savage 7:11 Jacob Lawren...
A Native American Sculpture That’s Larger Than Life
‘The Eagle and the Chief’ is a striking example of contemporary native American art. Carved from Alaskan red cedar, it’s 22 feet tall and weighs around 3,000 pounds. From the Series: Seriously Amazing...
Black Excellist
Edmonia Lewis African American Sculptor