Where did Joe Overstreet work that also played an important part in the Black Arts Movement?
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Joe Overstreet Joe Overstreet (born 1933) is an American painter who lives and works in New York City. In the 1950s and early 1960s he was associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement. During the Civil Rights Movement he became known for works such as "Strange Fruit" and "The New Jemima", which reflected his interest in contemporary social issues and the Black Arts Movement. He also worked with Amiri Baraka as the Art Director for the Black Arts Repertory Theatre and School in Harlem, and in 1974 he co-founded Kenkeleba House, an East Village gallery and studio. In the 1980s he returned to figuration with his "Storyville" paintings, which recall the New Orleans jazz scene of the early 1940s. His work draws on a variety of influences, including his own African-American and Native American heritage, and has been exhibited in galleries around the world.
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Black Arts Movement The Black Arts Movement, Black Aesthetics Movement or BAM is the artistic outgrowth of the Black Power movement that was prominent in the 1960s and early 1970s. "Time" magazine describes the Black Arts Movement as the "single most controversial movement in the history of African-American literature – possibly in American literature as a whole." The Black Arts Repertory Theatre is a key institution of the Black Arts Movement.
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Ed Hamilton Edward Norton Hamilton, Jr. (born February 14, 1947) is an American sculptor living in Louisville, Kentucky, who specializes in public art. His most famous work is "The Spirit of Freedom", a memorial to black Civil War veterans, that stands in Washington, DC, in the Shaw neighborhood near Howard University. Hamilton has also created monuments dedicated to Booker T. Washington, Joe Louis, York (William Clark's manservant on the Lewis and Clark Expedition), and the slaves who revolted on "La Amistad".
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306 Group The 306 Group were a collective of African American artists who worked and socialized together in Harlem, New York City in the 1930s. The name of the group was derived from the address of a studio space, 306 W. 141st Street, used by two of the artists, Charles Alston and Henry Bannarn. Many of these artists also worked with the Federal Art Project.
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Luke Theodore Upshure Luke Theodore Upshure (1885–1969) was a musician, composer, and music teacher who lived in New York's Greenwich Village. The son of a former slave, he received musical training at the Institute of Musical Art, a forerunner of the Juilliard School, as well as formal education at Columbia University, City College of New York, and the Rand School of Social Science. Although he earned his living doing menial jobs, music was his real vocation. He performed on and taught piano and composed for that instrument, voice, and orchestra. Believing in cultural attainment as an antidote to the social evils of his time, he hosted colorblind parties for artists, actors, musicians, and writers that featured readings, performances, and political discussion as well as dancing, food, and drink. Artists of his time captured his likeness in paintings and sculptures and one contemporary author has described him as a famous African-American entertainer.
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South Side Community Art Center The South Side Community Art Center is a community art center in Chicago that opened in 1940 with support from the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in Illinois. Opened in Bronzeville, it became the first black art museum in the United States and has been an important center for the development Chicago's African American artists. The center was awarded Chicago Landmark status in 1994. Of more than 100 community art centers established by the WPA, this is the only one that remains open.
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Peachtree Center Peachtree Center is a district located in Downtown Atlanta, Georgia. Most of the structures that make up the district were designed by Atlanta architect John C. Portman, Jr.. A defining feature of the Peachtree Center is a network of enclosed pedestrian sky bridges suspended above the street-level, which have garnered criticism for discouraging pedestrian street life. The district is served by the Peachtree Center MARTA station, providing access to rapid transit.
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A. B. Spellman Alfred B. Spellman (born August 12, 1935), is an African-American poet, music critic, music historian, arts administrator, and author. He first garnered attention for his 1965 book of poems entitled "The Beautiful Days". In 1966 he published a highly influential book on the history of African-American music entitled "Four Lives in the Bebop Business" (aka "Black Music: Four Lives"; Random House). From 1975 to 2005 he worked as an Arts Administrator for the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been particularly instrumental in supporting and forwarding jazz music within the United States.
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Organization of Black American Culture The Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) was conceived during the era of the Civil Rights Movement by Hoyt W. Fuller as a collective of African-American writers, artists, historians, educators, intellectuals, community activists, and others. Founded on Southside Chicago in May 1967 by a group of Black intellectuals that included Fuller (editor of "Negro Digest"), the poet Conrad Kent Rivers, and Gerald McWorter (later Abdul Alkalimat), OBAC aimed to coordinate artistic support in the struggle for freedom, justice and equality of opportunity for African Americans. The organization had workshops for visual arts, theater, and writing, and produced two publications: a newsletter, "Cumbaya", and the magazine "Nommo".
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Jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in African American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. It then emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African American and European American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience and styles to the art form as well. Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".
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Delta Blues Museum The Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States exists to collect, preserve, and provide public access to and awareness of the blues. Along with holdings of significant blues-related memorabilia, the museum also exhibits and collects art portraying the blues tradition, including works by sculptor Floyd Shaman and photographer Birney Imes.
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Jepson Center for the Arts Jepson Center for the Arts is a museum of contemporary art located in historic downtown Savannah, Georgia. It is one of three museum sites comprising Telfair Museums. The building was designed by Moshe Safdie and opened to the public in 2006. The museum features world-class traveling art exhibitions and houses works from Telfair Museums' permanent collection. Educational programming takes place within the Jepson Center's auditorium, community gallery, education studios, and ArtZeum, which is a unique, interactive gallery for children and families. In addition to its gallery and educational spaces, the Jepson Center has its own cafe and gift shop. The museum is also home to the original iconic "Bird Girl" statue, made famous on the book cover of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil".
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Overbeck Sisters The Overbeck Sisters were four women potters and artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement who worked in Cambridge City, Indiana, from 1911 until 1955.
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John Drew (baseball) John Mott Drew (1883–1977) was an African-American entrepaneur and sports executive who was an officer and owner of the Hilldale Club of the Negro leagues. Drew started out in the transportation business, forming the John M. Drew Bus Line in Darby, Pennsylvania. He took over the responsibility of running the club after Ed Bolden became incapaciatated, working with the team from 1928 to 1932. He was the eldest son of Napoleon Bonaparte Drew a slave at Belmead (Powhatan, Virginia) who became the first black man in Powatan, Virginia after Emancipation.
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Atlanta blues Atlanta blues refers to the local blues scene in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, which had its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s. According to AllMusic,"The Atlanta blues scene of the 1920s was among the most fertile in all the South, with a steady stream of rural musicians converging on the city hoping to gain exposure playing the local club circuit, with any luck rising to perform at Decatur Street's famed 81 Theatre."
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Joe Englert Joe Englert is a Washington DC area restaurateur. He became known in the early 1990s for creating quirky themed bars, restaurants, and entertainment venues on U Street.
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James Overstreet James Overstreet (February 11, 1773 – May 24, 1822) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
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Jack Stewart (artist) Jack Stewart (January 27, 1926 – March 4, 2005) was an American artist. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, he began private art lessons when he was seven. When he was about nine he went to classes at the High Museum of Art. In his early to mid-teens he apprenticed to the sculptor/painter Steffen Thomas. During WWII he served in Patton's Third Army as a combat infantryman, entering combat in the Battle of the Bulge. After the war he earned a BFA degree at Yale University, where he studied with Josef Albers and Willem de Kooning. He studied architecture at Columbia University and later earned MA and Ph.D. degrees at New York University. In 1976 Stewart married painter and art administrator Regina Serniak Stewart. His first wife and their son are deceased.
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Jennie Dean Jane Serepta Dean (15 April 1848 – May 3, 1913) (nicknamed "Jennie" or "Miss Jennie") was born into slavery in northern Virginia, freed as a result of the American Civil War, and became an important founder of churches and Sunday Schools for African Americans in northern Virginia. Dean founded the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth, which for more than four decades was the only institution of higher education available to African American youth in Northern Virginia, and one of only two in the state without overt religious affiliation.
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Eugene Winslow Eugene Winslow (November 17, 1919 – 2001) was an American artist, illustrator, businessman and publisher. He co-founded Afro-Am Publishing in Chicago, Illinois. In 2000, the DuSable Museum of African-American History honored him as one of seven black design pioneers in Chicago.
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Peachtree Baptist Church (Atlanta) Peachtree Baptist Church was founded in rural DeKalb County, Georgia, United States in the summer of 1847 by Bruce Jacobs. The church took its name from the location at the corner of Briarcliff and LaVista roads that was known by the mid-nineteenth century locals as the "peachtree bartering station" where the locals would gather on Saturdays to exchange goods. The intersection is midway between the north and south forks of Peachtree Creek.
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Two Centuries of Black American Art Two Centuries of Black American Art was a 1976 traveling exhibition of African-American art organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). It "received greater visibility and validation from the mainstream art world than any other group exhibition of work by Black artists." According to the "Grove Encyclopedia of American Art", the "landmark" exhibition "drew widespread public attention to the contributions to African American artists to American visual culture."