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African-American art showcased in Pine Bluff, Arkansas

June 23, 2016

 

This appears to be an interesting exhibition — “Here. African American Art from the Permanent Collection of the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas.”  According to Leslie Newell Peacock: The show is called “Here.” because of Pine Bluff’s place in the history of contemporary African-American art, spinning off major artists from the art department at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. It is called “Here.” because now it is Pine Bluff that struggles to feel important. Its Main Street is closed to traffic because its old brick buildings have literally fallen down and bricks litter the street. The old Hotel Pines, once a Southern showcase, is crumbling. But people in Pine Bluff can go to the Arts & Science Center and feel, as [Kevin] Cole did, “as good as anybody else.” That is the power of art: to transcend.

 

“Here…” features works by Elizabeth Catlett, Benny Andrews, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden — famous talents known to most gallery-going folks. Linocuts by Margaret Burroughs, co-founder of the Chicago Arts and Crafts Guild; a silkscreen by artist and art historian Samella Lewis, who founded the Museum of African American Arts in Los Angeles; surrealist etchings by Camille Billops, who created a vast archive of African-American visual and recorded performing arts; an etching by Rutgers professor Vivian Browne, who founded SoHo 20.  The exhibition runs through October 15, 2016.

Source: The Arts & Science Center puts Pine Bluff on the map of the art world

 

 

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Calvin Burnett “War Workers No. 6”

 

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