Sculptor
Littleton Alston’s statue of Willa Cather (image courtesy the Architect of the Capitol) Last week, Littleton Alston’s sculpture of writer Willa Cather was unveiled at the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, where the likeness of a slavery supporter once stood. Alston is the first Black artist to be featured in the National Statuary Hall […]
Comment on this story Comment RICHMOND — A Maryland artist has been chosen to create a statue for the U.S. Capitol of the Black teenage girl whose defiance of the blighted conditions at her all-black Virginia high school in 1951 helped end school segregation across the country.
Edmonia Lewis circa 1870, photographed by Henry Rocher National Portrait Gallery under CC0 1.0 Throughout her lifetime, Edmonia Lewis, born in 1844 to parents with Black and Native American ancestry, broke barriers to achieve widespread renown as a talented sculptor. One of those barriers: In 1859, she was among a handful of Black students to […]
GREENWOOD, Miss. — On Saturday night, June 18, the Memphis-based artist Desmond Lewis was in a public park unloading cakes — bundles of fireworks connected by a high-speed fuse — from a pickup truck. On the other side of a nearby tree line waited about 150 expectant onlookers for the Juneteenth celebration in the city […]
GREENWOOD, Miss. — On Saturday night, June 18, the Memphis-based artist Desmond Lewis was in a public park unloading cakes — bundles of fireworks connected by a high-speed fuse — from a pickup truck. On the other side of a nearby tree line waited about 150 expectant onlookers for the Juneteenth celebration in the city […]
Since age 4, Ed Dwight wanted to be an artist. It was just that some other things got in the way. Dwight was a Navy pilot and famously the first Black man trained to become an astronaut. He also was an engineer, private pilot, developer, owner of several businesses and a restaurateur with a successful […]
The prolific Black and Native American sculptor Edmonia Lewis, recently honored with a US Postage stamp, is set to be celebrated by local womens’ groups this Saturday as part of Women’s History Month in Boston. The Greater Boston Section of the National Council of Negro Women, Suffrage100MA, and the US Postal Service have joined together […]
James Earl Reid, a sculptor who created the city’s monument to Billie Holiday, died of congestive heart failure July 18 at Harbor Hospital. He was 78. Source link
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