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Samuel Levi Jones
Samuel Levi Jones (born 1978) is an American artist, he is known for his paintings and assemblage art. Many of his works are abstract, and centered on African-American history, and identity; often using historically sourced materials. Biography Samuel Levi Jones was born in 1978 in Marion, Indiana, into an African-American family. Jones is related (great nephew, through marriage) to Abraham S. Smith, one of the two men publicly lynched in 1930 in Marion, Indiana. He attended Taylor University (B.A. degree in communications studies); Herron School of Art and Design (B.F.A. degree 2009 in photography); and Mills College (M.F.A. degree 2012 in studio art). Art Career Levi Jones' first solo exhibition, ''Samuel Levi Jones: Left of Center'' (2019), took place at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. He has also had a solo exhibition at The Dayton Contemporary in Ohio titled ''The Empire is Falling'', and ''Unbound'' at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Jones work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion, Indiana
Marion is a city in and the county seat of Grant County, Indiana, United States, along the Mississinewa River. The population was 28,310 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is named for Francis Marion, a brigadier general from South Carolina in the American Revolutionary War. The city is home to Indiana Wesleyan University, the largest Evangelicalism, evangelical Christian university in the Midwestern United States, Midwest and Indiana's largest private university, when online and regional campuses in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois are included. The traditional campus enrolls about 2,800 students. Marion is the birthplace of actor James Dean and cartoonist Jim Davis (cartoonist), Jim Davis, and was the location of the wedding of actress Julia Roberts and singer Lyle Lovett in 1993. Ronald Douglas Morrell Jr. is the city's first African American mayor and has been mayor since 2024. History Founding The Battle of the Mississinewa was fought in December 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles County Museum Of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961, splitting from the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art. Four years later, it moved to the Wilshire Boulevard complex designed by William Pereira. The museum's wealth and collections grew in the 1980s, and it added several buildings beginning in that decade and continuing in subsequent decades. LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States. It attracts nearly a million visitors annually. It holds more than 150,000 works spanning the history of art from ancient times to the present. In addition to art exhibits, the museum features film and concert series. History Early years The Los Angeles County Museum of Art was established as a museum in 1961. Prior to this, LACMA was part of the Los Angeles Museum of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mills College Alumni
Mills is the plural form of mill, but may also refer to: As a name * Mills (surname), a common family name of English or Gaelic origin * Mills (given name) *Mills, a fictional British secret agent in a trilogy by writer Manning O'Brine Places United States * Mills, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Mills, Nebraska, an unincorporated community *Mills, New Mexico, an unincorporated community * Mills, Utah, an unincorporated community * Trego (CDP), Wisconsin, an unincorporated census-designated place also known as Mills * Mills, Wyoming, a town * Mills County, Iowa * Mills County, Texas * Mills Township (other) * Mount Mills (California) * Mills Glacier, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado * Mills Lake, California * Lake Mills (Washington), a reservoir *Mills Reservation, New Jersey, a county park * Mills River (North Carolina) * Mills Creek (other), two American streams *Camp Mills, Long Island, New York, a military installation established in 1917, incor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herron School Of Art And Design Alumni
Herron may refer to: People *Herron (name) Places *Herron, Western Australia, Australia *Herron, Michigan, USA *Herron, Montana, USA * Herrön, Nynäshamn Municipality – an island in the Stockholm archipelago and Nynäshamn Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden * – an island and settlement in Karlstad Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden *Herron Island, an island in central Case Inlet, Washington, U.S.A. *Herron Run, a creek in West Virginia, U.S.A. *Herron River, a river in Alaska, U.S.A. *Herron Glacier, a glacier in Alaska, U.S.A. Facilities and structures *Herron Airport (FAA id: 7G1), New Cumberland, West Virginia, U.S.A. *Herron station, an East Busway station on Herron Avenue, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. *Herron High School in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA *Herron School of Art at the Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA *CHSLD Herron, a long-term care facility for the elderly in Dorval, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor University Alumni
Taylor, Taylors or Taylor's may refer to: People * Taylor (surname) ** List of people with surname Taylor * Taylor (given name), including Tayla and Taylah * Taylor sept, a branch of Scottish clan Cameron * Justice Taylor (other) Places Australia * Electoral district of Taylor, South Australia * Taylor, Australian Capital Territory, planned suburb Canada * Taylor, British Columbia United States * Taylor, Alabama * Taylor, Arizona * Taylor, Arkansas * Taylor, Indiana * Taylor, Louisiana * Taylor, Maryland * Taylor, Michigan * Taylor, Mississippi * Taylor, Missouri * Taylor, Nebraska * Taylor, North Dakota * Taylor, New York * Taylor, Beckham County, Oklahoma * Taylor, Cotton County, Oklahoma * Taylor, Pennsylvania * Taylors, South Carolina * Taylor, Texas * Taylor, Utah * Taylor, Washington * Taylor, West Virginia * Taylor, Wisconsin * Taylor, Wyoming * Taylor County (other) * Taylor Township (other) Businesses and organisation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Marion, Indiana
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African-American Painters
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the U.S. after White Americans. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of Africans enslaved in the United States. In 2023, an estimated 48.3 million people self-identified as Black, making up 14.4% of the country’s population. This marks a 33% increase since 2000, when there were 36.2 million Black people living in the U.S. African-American history began in the 16th century, with Africans being sold to European slave traders and transported across the Atlantic to the Western Hemisphere. They were sold as slaves to European colonists and put to work on plantations, particularly in the southern colonies. A few were able to achieve freedom through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1978 Births
Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). * January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II. * January 10 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated; riots erupt against Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Somoza's government. * January 13 – Former American Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a Democrat, dies of cancer in Waverly, Minnesota, at the age of 66. * January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. * January 22 – Ethiopia declares the ambassador of West Germany ''persona non grata''. * January 24 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulson Fontaine Press
Paulson Fontaine Press (formerly Paulson Bott Press) is a printmaking studio, gallery, and publisher of contemporary fine art prints in Berkeley, California. Many of their publications are etchings. More than half of their published editions have been produced with minority or female artists. In a 2011 interview, Pam Paulson stated: "We plan projects with emerging, mid-career, and blue-chip artists. We keep a balance." History In 1993, Pam Paulson, who had previously worked at Crown Point Press, began conducting workshops in intaglio printmaking and producing editions with local artists from an 800 square-foot studio in Emeryville, California.Alexander, Jamie. "Paulson Bott Press." San Francisco Arts Quarterly, Issue #6, October 2011. pp. 44-46 In 1996, she and Renee Bott co-founded Paulson Press, moving to a larger studio space in Emeryville. Their first publications were Chris Brown's "Train Series" prints; these quickly sold out, providing capital for the business to begin ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of African-American Visual Artists
This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, video art, and digital art. The entries are in alphabetical order by surname. Artists A–B * Panteha Abareshi (born 1999), multidisciplinary artist * Nina Chanel Abney (born 1982), painter * Blanch Ackers (1914–2003), painter * Terry Adkins (1953–2014), artist * Mequitta Ahuja (born 1976), painter, installation artist * Larry D. Alexander (born 1953), painter * Laylah Ali (born 1968), painter * Jules T. Allen (born 1947), photographer * Tina Allen (1949–2008), sculptor * Steve R. Allen (born 1954), painter * Charles Alston (1907–1977), painter * A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fine Arts Museums Of San Francisco
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), comprising the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in the city of San Francisco. FAMSF's combined attendance was 1,158,264 visitors in 2022, making it the fifth most attended art institution in the United States. In 2024, the two combined museums were ranked 15th in ''The Washington Posts list of the best art museums in the U.S. Opened in 1895, the de Young is home to American art from the 17th century through today, textile arts and costumes, African art, Oceanic art, arts of the Americas, and contemporary art. Opened in 1924, the Legion of Honor showcases European painting, sculpture, and decorative arts, ancient art, graphic arts, and contemporary art in dialogue with its historical collections and Beaux-Arts style building. In total the collection holds 130,000 objects. History In 1931, the two museums were informally united for the first time wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
