#African American aritsts

[samsmith1222]

Old oc art of a beautiful girl with beautiful red hair!

#red hair #beauttiful girls #pretty eyes #oc drawing #my oc art #oc art #oc #character art #digital aritst #african american

[uwmspeccoll]

Mother’s Day - Sunday Funday

For our celebration of Mother’s Day we are sharing our copy of Coming On Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson, with illustrations by E.B. Lewis. It is the story of a mother going away to work during WWII and the daughter who is waiting for her to keep her promise to come on home soon. Our edition, part of our Historical Curriculum Collection, was published in 2004 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons in New Work, a division of Penguin Young Reader’s Group.

Jacqueline Woodson is a four-time Newbery Honor winner, a four-time National Book Award finalist, and a three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner. Coming On Home Soon was a 2005 Caldecott Honor Book and was on the ALA notable list that year. She was inspired to write the story by the work of African American women during WWII, stating:

 “I had been reading stories about Rosie the Riveter and couldn’t find any with African American women in them so I started researching. With the small amount of information I gathered, I began to write this book.”

The illustrations were done in watercolor by E.B. Lewis, self-proclaimed Artistrator. He attended Temple University Tyler School of Art and has since illustrated over 70 children’s books, also continuing to show his work in fine art galleries. His many honors include the New York Times 2016 Best Illustrated Book Award, and a 2016 Golden Kite Honor .

The origin of Mother’s Day is accredited to Anna Jarvis, a women’s rights activist living at the turn of the 20th century who campaigned for it to become a national holiday. Interestingly, Jarvis moved to end the holiday after flower and greeting card prices rose significantly, saying:

“A printed card means nothing except that you are too lazy to write to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world. And candy! You take a box to Mother—and then eat most of it yourself. A pretty sentiment.”

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-Claire, Special Collections Graduate Intern

#claire #sunday funday #mother's day #holidays #Coming on home soon #jacqueline woodson #e. b. lewis #watercolor #illustrations #women in wwii #illustrated books #children's books #African Americans #women writers #African American writers #African American aritsts #Historical Curriculum Collection

[shanair]

Some art

Hello! Sorry I just disappeared, I’ll continue to update the fanfic soon but I just had to take a quick internet break. Here is something I made in compensation lol.

With makeup

Without makeup

#art #artists on tumblr #blackart #african american #black woman #woman #digital aritst #digital #digital art #black lady #poc

[renlo]

Rise Above the Clouds.  Krita.

Another sketch in Krita!  Slowly, I’m growing more familiarized with the interface.  Something that might be apparent is that my goal isn’t necessarily a clean, neat product; in addition to the fact that it’s a bit of experimentation, I realize that I kind of like the way traditional linework looks over imprecise digital coloring.

Another fun thing that I’ve realized is that this workflow is faster than my usual MS Paint style, though I will never abandon the latter.

TL;DR:  I’m learning, and this is so much fun!

#Art #Digital Art #Artists on Tumblr #Illustrators on Tumblr #Black art #Black Aritst #African American #Black Girl #Women of color #Woman of color #WOC #People of color #Person of color #POC #Krita #Clouds #Blue #Afro #Headwrap #Natural Hair

[shabazzy75]

Who is Aaron Douglas? A Harlem Renaissance Legend!

#Aaron Douglas #Harlem Renaissance #Artist #Black Aritst #Black Culture #Foundational Black American #African Art #Art Education #African American #Painting #Art

[sadnostalgiacreative]

Alright dudes, new video uploaded. Come check out what I’ve been up to all of January.

#vlog #youtube #snapshots #8mm #8mm film #8mm film filter #vintage shots #vintage aesthetic #vintage look #vintage art #vintage video #vintage film #filmmaker #black artists #black filmmaker #african american film #african american aritst

[uwmspeccoll]

Black History Month: Tyler Mitchell

For today’s post honoring Black History Month, we present I Can Make You Feel Good by Tyler Mitchell, a candy-colored dreamscape juxtaposed by representations and experiences of reality, published in London by Prestel Publishing Ltd in 2020. The renowned 25-year-old photographer shot to stardom with Beyonce’s Vogue cover in September 2018 as the first Black photographer to shoot for the cover, as well as one of the youngest, with one portrait from this collection later acquired by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in 2019 as part of their permanent collection. 

I Can Make You Feel Good is a culmination of Mitchell’s 5-year body of photography and film with his first solo US exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York. The 206-page testament to Mitchell’s signature style, including the use of natural lighting and rich colors, presents a perspective not often seen: Black people photographed as the fluidly natural centerpiece of the photographic gaze. Mitchell creates a world in which the subjects of the photos are the center of the universe, a luxury exclusively offered to white people throughout the history of photography. Even the images that veer closer to avant-garde photography carry an element of effortlessness, of stumbling across these images in nature rather than carefully framing each aspect of the image to create that feeling. 

This technique was first popularized by the image-makers of the Harlem Renaissance discussed in last week’s post, which Mitchell infuses with the vivid colors of the fashion photographer. Mitchell writes:

I often think about what white fun looks like, and this notion that Black people can’t have the same. Growing up with Tumblr, I would often come across images of sensual, young, attractive white models running around being free and having so much fun. . . . I seldom saw that freedom for Black people in images—or at least in the photography I knew. My work responds to this lack. I feel an urgency to visualize Black people as free, expressive, effortless, and sensitive. I aim to visualize what a Black utopia looks like or could look like.

View more of Tyler Mitchell’s recent work.

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-Emily, Special Collections Writing Intern

#Black History Month #tyler mitchell #I Can Make You Feel Good #Black Lives Matter #photography #photographs #photobraphers #Black photographers #African American aritsts #Prestel Publishing Ltd #African Americans #photography books #Emily Birz

[shabazzy75]

Introducing Sankofa Studios Podcast

Join the discussion about art, culture, sociology, and history here on Sankofa Studios. Follow on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and let’s keep the memories of our legendary artist alive while inspiring future generations to control the narrative via the visual arts.

#African Art #African American #Foundational Black American #Black Aritst #Painting #Social #Art #Creativity #Black Culture