Category: Art/Culture
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Black History Month Art #8: Fred Eversley
I love transparent resin sculptures, and I particularly love Fred Eversley’s reflective optical lens work. They are so striking.
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Black History Month Art #7: Guest Post!
TGIF! In celebration of Black History month I’m highlighting Black Art in all forms (as artists, subjects, creators and inspirations) and today I’m happy to bring you a post by one of my faithful readers: She’s a retiree, an avid reader and gardener, plus she is the star of one of my most popular posts…
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Black History Month Art #6: Mark Bradford
This piece, created by Bradford in 2006 is a commentary on the 1921 race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a city that contained a neighborhood of affluent African-Americans that was nick named the Black Wall Street. The race riot, stemming from alleged rumors of an assault, virtually decimated the Greenwood neighborhood, leaving hundreds dead and thousands…
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Black History Month Art #5: MoAD
I took this picture in 2010 during a visit to the Museum of African Diaspora in San Francisco. This is a piece created from a photo by Chester Jiggins Jr. The piece spans 2 stories and is fashioned from over 2,000 individual photos from people all over the world. It’s stunning in person, and the…
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Black History Month Art #2: Henry O. Tanner, 1893
The Banjo Lesson. This was another piece that I saw at the Rhapsodies in Black show at the Palace of Legion of Honor way back in 1998, but this work means so much to me because my parents have a copy of this in their home; I adore it. Technically it is such a…
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Black History Month-A Daily Dose of Art #1: Archibald J. Motley Jr., 1929
In honor of Black History Month, I decided to post works from some of my favorite black artists. I’m also going to attempt a post a day, so we’ll see how this goes. This first piece is from a show I saw in San Francisco in 1998, called Rhapsodies in Black. At this time in…
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CalArts Character Animation Show
On Saturday I went to CalArts to take a peek at the student curated Character Animation show in the Main Gallery. The actual show took place last Thursday, but the works remained in the gallery for a couple of days. There were some incredibly talented animators bringing characters to life through story telling. Here were…
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The Last Bookstore-A Literary Wonderland in DTLA
Today I spent the afternoon in the most eclectic store I’ve ever seen in Los Angeles. (Yes, that is saying a lot). The Last Bookstore can be found in a converted Crocker Bank on 5th and Spring. If you are too young to remember Crocker Bank, here is their logo (still on the Spring St.…
Colony Little, Culture Shock Art 