#African American female artists

[agelessphotography]

Grace Jones, Studio 54, Ming Smith, 1977-79

#photography #vintage photography #vintage #grace jones #ming smith #studio 54 #1970s #american #african american #black artists #women artists #female artists #black and white photography #new york #new york city #celebrity #100 notes #250 notes

[nobrashfestivity]

Gwendolyn Bennett, Adam & Eve, 1932 Ink on paper Illustration commissioned for publication in Brown Thrush, an Anthology by Students of Talladega College and Tougaloo College (Bryn Athyn, PA: Lawson-Roberts Pub. Co., 1932)

#Gwendolyn Bennett #female artists #black artists #african american artist #ink #adam and eve

[image-junkie]

Aesthetics of Funk - Crocheted mandalas by Xenobia Bailey

Xenobia Bailey is a trash alchemist, a single stitch, urban crochet aficionado, designer, artist and community activist, whose practice industrializes the visual aesthetic of “Cosmic-Funk,” practiced by African-American homemakers since Emancipation, into utilitarian “Funktional” design. Media exposure ranges from an Absolut advertisement to a design consultancy with Disney World, and a subway mosaic commission from the MTA in New York. She has shown internationally, with such institutions as Creative Time, the Sharjah Art Foundation, and numerous U.S. Embassies. Her work is held by numerous museums, as well as in academic, corporate, public and private collections.

#Xenobia Bailey #funktional #art #crochet #knitting #craft #african american art #black artist #female artist #mandala #spiritual art #patterns #geometric #geometric art #colorful #women in art #cosmic

[oncanvas]

Last Dance at the Annual County Gala (Couple), Toyin Ojih Odutola, 2016

Charcoal, pastel, and pencil on paper 77 x 42 in. (195.58 x 106.68 cm)

#art #painting #toyin ojih odutola #contemporary art #black artists #2010s #21st century #portrait #nigerian #african art #artists of color #american #female artists #women artists #charcoal #pastel #pencil

[yourdailyqueer]

Patrisse Cullors

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: 20 June 1983

Ethnicity: African American

Occupation: Activist, writer, artist, teacher

#Patrisse Cullors #black rights #lgbt rights #lgbt #lgbtq #female #queer #19083 #black #african american #poc #activist #writer #artist #teacher

[taf-art]

United States of Attica (1971-72). Faith Ringgold.

#faith ringgold #art #female artists #american art #african american art #1970s #printmaking #seen in person #whitney museum #incomplete history of protest

[pagansphinx]

Samuel Joseph Brown (American, 1907-1994) • 1986 • Watercolor

Samuel Joseph Brown Jr. (1907–1994) was a watercolorist, printmaker, and educator. He was the first African American artist hired to produce work for the Public Works of Art Project, a precursor to the Work Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Brown often depicted the lives of African Americans in his paintings. He worked primarily in watercolor and oils, and he produced portraits, landscapes and prints. – Wikipedia

Celebrating the work of African-American artists during Black History Month.

#art #painting #fine art #art history #watercolor painting #american artist #samuel brown #african american artist #black history month 2024 #portrait #black american artist #female portrait #portrait of a woman #pagan sphinx art blog #contemporary painting #20th century american art

[petalpetal]

Artist I Like Series 

Kara Walker 1969 - ???? an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes. Walker was awarded a MacArthur fellowship in 1997, at the age of 28, becoming one of the youngest ever recipients of the award. Walker is regarded as among the most prominent and acclaimed Black American artists working today.

#kara walker #20th century art #21st century art #contemporary art #printmaking #painter #female artist #american #african american #artist I like #art history #art #art inspo #fave #petal talks

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Eastman Johnson (1824-1906) "Dinah, Portrait of a Negress" (c. 1867) Oil on board Located in the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, United States In the Book of Genesis, Dinah was the seventh child and only daughter of Leah and Jacob, and one of the matriarchs of the Israelites. In 19th-century America, "Dinah" became a generic name for an enslaved African woman. At the 1850 Woman's Rights Convention in New York, a speech by Sojourner Truth was reported on in the New York Herald, which used the name "Dinah" to symbolize black womanhood as represented by Truth:

In a convention where sex and color are mingled together in the common rights of humanity, Dinah, and Burleigh, and Lucretia, and Frederick Douglas [sic], are all spiritually of one color and one sex, and all on a perfect footing of reciprocity. Most assuredly, Dinah was well posted up on the rights of woman, and with something of the ardor and the odor of her native Africa, she contended for her right to vote, to hold office, to practice medicine and the law, and to wear the breeches with the best white man that walks upon God's earth.

Lizzie McCloud, a slave on a Tennessee plantation during the American Civil War, recalled that Union soldiers called all enslaved women "Dinah." Describing her fear when the Union army arrived, she said: "We was so scared we run under the house and the Yankees called 'Come out Dinah' (didn't call none of us anything but Dinah). They said 'Dinah, we're fightin' to free you and get you out from under bondage.'" The name Dinah was subsequently used for dolls and other images of black women.

#paintings #art #artwork #painting #female portrait #eastman johnson #oil on board #fine art #gibbes museum of art #art gallery #american artist #portrait of a woman #black woman #history #slavery #us civil war #african american #clothing #clothes #1860s #mid 1800s #mid 19th century

[artistnik]

Flawed and Perfect

I am a villian, sometimes. I’m direct, honest or completely disconnected. I hate when a muthafucka is always the hero or innocent victim. You changing in phone booths? You Clark Kent? Soaring through the sky but can’t save yourself? NIGGAH PLEASE!! It’s not even human to be perfect. So I hope when I wound, it’s with respect and good intentions. So the conflict is an opportunity to not only heal…

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#BlackWoman #grief blackgrief niknicholson nik nicholson #african american american poet #american blacks #artist nik #black female artist #black struggle

[theaskew]

William H. Johnson (African American 1901-1970), Standing Female Nude with Leg on Chair, ca. 1939-1940. Pen and ink and ink wash on paper, 24 1/8 x 18 1/4 in. | 61.3 x 46.4 cm. (Source:  Smithsonian American Art Museum)

#art #artwork #modern art #contemporary art #modern artwork #20th century modern art #20th century contemporary art #standing female nude #female figure #human figure #female nude #American artist #American art #modern American art #contemporary American art #African-American artist #African American art #William H. Johnson

[agelessphotography]

Untitled (Man Smoking), Carrie Mae Weems, 1990

#carrie mae weems #photography #vintage photography #vintage #black and white photography #women artists #black artists #artists of color #female artists #american #1990s #1990 #african american

[nobrashfestivity]

Faith Ringgold , Quilt/Textile details, 1990s-

#african american artists #female artists #faith ringgold #textiles #quilts #set

[noway78]

After the recent passing of Carl Weathers, I got inspired to an image with a boxing theme. Although not his role Apollo Creed from the Rocky film series was one of my favorites. So, I came up with this unnamed female boxer who's also of fan of Apollo hence the American flag design on her boxing gloves.

#artists on tumblr #black artist #african american #carl weathers #apollo creed #boxer #female boxer #boxing ring #boxing #boxing gloves #3drender #poser software #Poser 13 #black excellence #black artists on tumblr

[oncanvas]

Gossip, Elizabeth Catlett, 2005

Inkjet and photolithograph on paper 30.5 x 45.7 cm (12 x 18 in.)

#art #elizabeth catlett #contemporary art #black artists #women artists #female artists #artists of color #21st century #2000s #print #lithograph #american #african american

[image-junkie]

Amanda Williams, What black is this you say?— "A west side imma snatch-yo-edges-back-with-a-hand-gesture black"—black (08.27.2020), v1, 2023 Oil, mixed media on wood panel 60 x 60 x 2.5"

Seen at Casey Kaplan Gallery booth, Art Basel Miami, 2020

#abstract art #female artist #contemporary art #chicago artist #african american art #art basel miami