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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Art collector John Foster spotted this sculpture, titled Martha and Mary, in the front yard of a St. Louis home in 2019. Courtesy of John Foster / American Folk Art Museum In 2019, John Foster was ...
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 ...