San Diego African American Museum of Fine Arts

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Hello Friends! Join us for another groundbreaking Sister Cities Project Cultural Tour series as we create a space for community members from both communities of... our Sister Cities Partnership between Southeast San Diego and Solana Beach/Del Mar/Carmel Valley to listen discuss and take real action. We will start the day off at 1pm with an engaging discussion between community members to discuss how two very different communities can support one another to fight racial and economic inequalities as partners. Then stay after for jazz at 2pm brought to you by M.A.N.D.A.T.E. Records. Inc. featuring the Carleton Overstreet Jr. Rhythm section, Men4Christ, Daneen Wilburn Music and Darryl Williams. Please RSVP if you will be going. You can do so by visiting the event page and indicate that you will be going here: https://fb.me/e/Wxufvoi8 You can register by clicking on the Eventbrite link found on the Facebook event page above or you can click on the link below: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sister-cities-project-cultural Founded by Shawn McClondon, the vision of Sister Cities Project is to help end racial inequality by formally partnering affluent communities with underserved communities across the United States to create better understanding and build new relationships between very different communities and Black and White people. #solanabeach #delmar #carmelvalley #southeastsandiego #community #sistercitiesproject

Hello friends! I would like to invite any of you that are interested to a happy hour this Thursday, June 24th to learn about Sister Cities Project, the progress... we have made and how to get involved. We are interested in all levels of volunteers and we are especially interested in individuals that represent corporations that are interested in helping their company expand their social responsibility initiatives. If you are interested, please use the information below to RSVP. Hope to see you there! #sistercitiesproject #solanabeach #sandiego

THIS EXHIBIT HONORS INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE DIED AT THE HANDS OF THOSE PERPETRATING INJUSTICE AND SYSTEMATIC RACISM About this event: This grassroots exhibit had its start in Portland, Oregon and is an outgrowth of the protest that took place nationwide in 2020. The informal outcry is now an organization called the Say Their Names Memorial. It is the goal of the organization to make sure that we never forget the victims, and that we are able to place a name with a face. In San... Diego, our exhibit will also recognize local Civil Rights advocates who have worked to level the playing field. The Say Their Names exhibit has been shown in over 25 cities. This is the first exhibition south of Los Angeles County. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The Say Their Name Memorial team manages an ongoing, submission driven database that includes names, photographs and biographies of victims. They produce traveling memorials for public exhibition as well as provide support for communities interested in creating grassroots memorials of their own. Their goal is to facilitate conversation around systemic racism, while honoring those whose lives have been taken by it. A special note of thanks to our sponsors: City of San Diego County of San Diego Clare Rose Foundation, Education Sponsor New Children’s Museum San Diego Downtown Partnership San Diego Gas & Electric San Diego Metropolitan Transit System - Choose Transit US Bank and to... Artworks San Diego Chrome Digital, Photo Fine & Art Printing Jennifer Luce, LUCE et studio Martha Schwartz Rackley’s Floral and Gifts Systems Management Services The Hilton San Diego Gaslamp is pleased to provide packages for those attending the exhibit. This includes 15% off the best regular price offered per room. In addition, daily exhibit visitors can park at a rate of $8.00 per hour. You must mention the exhibit at the time you check in. For additional programs associated with this exhibit please go to https://www.sdaamfa.org or https://www.saytheirnamesmemorials.com/ #Cityofsandiego Jot something down https://www.eventbrite.com/e/say-their-names-memorial-ticke

San Diegos own, Featured artist: Jean Cornwell Wheat

Artist ~ Jean Cornwell Wheat.

Please join us tomorrow for the Sister Cities Project San Diego Black Women Entrepreneurs Summit Series #04. We are asking all people to show up to support black women entrepreneurs and listen to their stories to have a better understanding of their journey. This is not just for black people, this event is for all people. In order to have a more equal society, we are going to need everyone to show up in support of these marginalized communities. join us to listen, learn and ...become a part of the ecosystem that we will be launching. Our ecosystem will be a network of people, services and companies that provide resources and expertise for these entrepreneurs to thrive. We are looking for people ready to make a difference and who understand that bias and unnecessary barriers are no longer acceptable. WE NEED ALL OF YOU! SO SHOW UP! #sistercitiesproject #sandiego #blackwomenentrepreneurs #blackownedbusinesses #entrepreneurship

Rare Photo of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929)

Artist ~ Jonathan Green

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Suggested Reading: In 1974, Middleton A. Harris and Toni Morrison led a team of gifted, passionate collectors in compiling these images and nearly five hundred others into one sensational narrative of the black experience in AmericaThe Black Book. Now in a newly restored hardcover edition, The Black Book remains a breathtaking testament to the legendary wisdom, strength, and perseverance of black men and women intent on freedom. Prominent collectors Morris Levitt, Roger Furm...an, and Ernest Smith joined Harris and Morrison (then a Random House editor, ultimately a two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning Nobel Laureate) to spend months studying, laughing at, and crying over these materialstranscripts from fugitive slaves’ trials and proclamations by Frederick Douglass and celebrated abolitionists, as well as chilling images of cross burnings and lynchings, patents registered by black inventors throughout the early twentieth century, and vibrant posters from Black Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s. Indeed, it was an article she found while researching this project that provided the inspiration for Morrison’s masterpiece, Beloved. A labor of love and a vital link to the richness and diversity of African American history and culture, The Black Book honors the past, reminding us where our nation has been, and gives flight to our hopes for what is yet to come. Beautifully and faithfully presented and featuring a foreword and original poem by Toni Morrison, The Black Book remains a timeless landmark work.

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The paintings of Billy Dee Williams explore the architecture of dreams and emotions, the mysterious qualities of the human experience that move in subtle currents under the surface of everyday life. He depicts an "abstraction of reality" - images rendered in a figurative style that bridge the visible world of the here and now with the invisible terrain of feelings and imagination. His large-scale works brim with a tension of movement that is achieved through the use of dramat...ic perspective and a cinematically inspired flair of nuance. Billy Dee Williams palette - cool, misty, and luminous - underscores the dreamy ambience of his compositions. Billy Dee Williamsilly Dee Williams grew up in Harlem with a family that actively encouraged his artistic abilities and fostered an enthusiasm for all forms of cultural expression. He began drawing at an early age and won scholarships to the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design in New York. There he studied classical principles of painting. Ironically, it was the need to earn money to buy paints and canvas that brought Williams his extensive credits in both television and film. In 1988, he renewed his enthusiasm for painting during an acting appearance in New York. Since 1991, he has had numerous solo art exhibitions across America, and has donated paintings to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC and The Schomburg Museum in New York. Williams calls his paintings abstract reality to express the underlying principles behind them. He draws his subjects from life: people he has met, situations he has lived, and sometimes characters he doesn't know, but whose idiosyncratic appearance or behavior has caught his eye.

Colored Frames reflects on the last 50 years in African-American art by exploring the influences, inspirations and experiences of black artists. Beginning at the height of the Civil Rights Era and leading up to the present, it provides a truthful, unflinching look at often-ignored artists and their progeny. Impressionistic video collages showcase the wide variety, both thematically and stylistically, of contemporary pieces of black artists working in the genres of illustration, abstraction and surrealism, among others.

BORN ON THIS DAY: Jacob Armstead Lawrence (September 7, 1917 - June 9, 2000) He is one of the best-known 20th-century African-American painters, known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism," though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem. He brought the African-American experience to life using blacks and browns juxtaposed... with vivid colors. He also taught and spent 16 years as a professor at the University of Washington. At the age of 23, Lawrence gained national recognition with his 60-panel The Migration Series, which depicted the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North. The series was purchased jointly by the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Lawrence's works are in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Northwest Art. His 1947 painting The Builders hangs in the White House. (info: Whitney Museum of American Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem & The New York Times) See more

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Thanks to television and movies, millions of people see the works of Paul Goodnight and don't even know it. You could be watching Will Smith in "Fresh Prince of Bel Air," "Seinfeld," "ER" or the award-winning movie "Ghost," and at some point, you will probably notice his distinctive paintings on the walls. Find Mr. Goodnight on FB. https://www.facebook.com/goodnightart

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Extraordinary artist!

Artist: Valencia Johnson

~Charly "Carlos" Palmer

John Carroll Doyle was born December 22, 1942 in Charleston, SC and is internationally recognized for his energetic, light filled paintings of subjects as diverse as blues musicians, blue marlins, and blue hydrangeas. Sadly Mr. Doyle left this earth on November 12, 2014 at the young age of 71. The artist got his start with his distinctive sport fishing paintings which began to grace the covers of many popular sport fishing magazines in the 1980s. He continued to build momentu...m throughout the 1980s and the 1990s with his now famous, commissioned, large scale paintings that can be seen gracing the walls of many of Charleston restaurants and historic homes, as well as clubs, resorts, and restaurants as far afield as Illinois, California, Virginia, and Australia. Over the course of his four decade long career, John became a seasoned, American Impressionist whose muse was always Charleston and the surrounding Lowcountry. See more