Tag: Sojourner Truth

• Artist a Day Challenge (22): Faith Ringgold

  

  While today’s post is a short one, the power in this piece makes up for my brevity. The Sunflower Quilting Bee at Arles is an homage to strong black women, solidarity and the power of community. The 8 women surrounding a communal quilt of sunflowers are CJ Walker, Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hammer, Harriet Tubman, Rosa…

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  February 23, 2017

  Art, Art/Culture, black history, Uncategorized

  cj walker, Faith Ringgold, fannie lou hammer, harriet tubman, ida b wells, mary mcleod bethune ella baker, painting, quilts, rosa parks, Sojourner Truth, sunflowers, van gogh

• Truth to Power: Sojourner Truth at BAMPFA

  

  “I SELL THE SHADOW TO SUPPORT THE SUBSTANCE.” SOJOURNER TRUTH In 1864 Sojourner Truth, a former slave turned abolitionist, filed a copyright for her name, using photography and mass media as a strategic tool to fight slavery and the damaging propaganda used to perpetuate it. Her astute use of “cartes de visites”using her nom de plume was an economical…

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  October 6, 2016

  Art, Art/Culture, black history, Museums, Photography, Uncategorized

  BAMPFA, Berkeley Art Museum, mass media, Photography, reconstruction, slavery, Sojourner Truth