The Grio

Folk artist Dom Flemons’ personal collection of African-American artifacts will be housed at Vanderbilt University

Grammy-winning folk artist and cultural historian Dom Flemons’ collection of African-American artifacts is heading to Vanderbilt University. According to The Nashville Tennessean, Flemons’ musical ...
Bristol Herald Courier

Nancy Johnson’s paintings honor past, embrace future

Nancy Johnson talks about her multi-media painting of a slave ship leaving from Africa as they picked up slaves on the way to America. GLADE SPRING, Va. — Artist Nancy Johnson uses her colorful, ...
WWAY TV

Marking 131 years since well-known African American folk artist was born in Pender County

PENDER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — It’s been 131 years since Minnie Evans was born in Pender County. Evans is one of the best known African American folk artists of the 20th century. She was born on this date ...
MLive

New exhibits highlight African American, Native American art at Detroit’s world-class art museum

DETROIT – One of the oldest and most complete collections of African American art in the nation just got a major upgrade - and you can see it now at Detroit’s world-class art museum. The Center for ...
insider.si.edu

African-American art / Sharon F. Patton

Colonial America and the young republic 1700-1820. Plantations ; The revival of African culture on the plantations ; A planter's house in Louisiana ; Plantation slave artists and craftsmen ; Urban ...