Vision & Sound * Black History At The Sedona Arts Center, AZ

“ Vision & Sound: An African American Experience program highlights the work of eight prolific artists that represent various mediums and genres of art…”  

“We strive to build supportive relationships to encourage cultural equity throughout Arizona and beyond – recognizing that professional American artists of African descent are too often overlooked.”

Featured Artists:

  • Patricia Bohannon
  • Dorrell Bradford
  • Jacqueline Chanda
  • Amber Doe
  • Debra Edgerton
  • Jerome Fleming
  • Isse Maloi
  • Bob Martin
  • Chip Thomas
  • George Welch
  • Shoreigh Williams

~Schedule of Events and Exhibitions~

Sedona, Goodyear, Peoria

 

*January 5-March 27, 2024

Peoria Library Exhibition / Peoria Main Library

8463 W Monroe St, Peoria, AZ 85345

Featuring the artwork and creativity of Patricia Bohannon, Jacqueline Chanda, Dorrell

Bradford, Jerome Fleming, and Isse Maloi.

*February 1-29, 2024

Sedona Arts Center Vision & Sound Exhibition & Sale

15 Art Barn Road, Sedona, AZ

Open: Mon-Sat 10AM – 5PM, Sun 12PM-5PM,

Featuring the artwork and creativity of Patricia Bohannon, Dorrell Bradford, Jacqueline

Chanda, Amber Doe, Debra Edgerton, Jerome Fleming, Isse Maloi, Chip Thomas, and

George Welch

*January 31- March 26, 2024

Goodyear Library Exhibition

Georgia T Lord Library, Goodyear, AZ

1900 N. Civic Square, Goodyear, AZ 85395

Featuring the artwork and creativity of Patricia Bohannon, Dorrell Bradford, Amber Doe,

Jerome Fleming, Isse Maloi, and Bob Martin

*Sunday-Monday, February 25-26, 2024

Vision and Sound Symposium

Sedona Arts Center, 15 Art Barn Road, Sedona, AZ

The Symposium will feature keynote speakers, panel discussions, performances, receptions,

and reflections. In addition, ADEI training will be included throughout, incorporating Critical

Response methodology. This year’s symposium will feature guest speaker Chip Thomas and a workshop led by Liz Lerman.

*Saturday, March 2, 2024, 9am-3pm

Peoria Arts Festival, City of Peoria

Vision and Sound artists will be demonstrating and providing workshops during the event.

*Saturday, March 2, 2024, 7-8:30pm

Concert featuring Don William and Friends

Peoria Center for the Performing Arts, Peoria

10580 N 83rd Dr, Peoria, AZ 85345

Join us for a special concert featuring Don William and Friends.

 

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Learning How “YOU” Draw

Learning How “YOU” Draw

(Originally posted 8/13/09)

This week I participated in another sketch class and struck up a conversation with a couple of the artists  about how different artists have a philosophy about or  an approach  to life drawing, painting, music etc and that it is important, regardless of what artistic discipline you are involved with, that you find and be comfortable with your own “voice”.  In many aspects of our daily lives, we compromise ourselves so that we can fit in at work, school and maybe even family, however being creative is about not fitting in. The term self expression is not meant to mean “our expression”.

Tony Ryder

Tony Ryder

Egon Schiele

Egon Schiele

So I’ve always cautioned artists  (myself included) in avoiding  mimicking or embeding

themselves totally in the philosophy of other artists. Here are some drawings from artists who’s work I admire –  yet they are very different from each other and from my own drawings.

 

The keywords are “Self Expression”

 

Bob Martin

Bob Martin

 

 

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Black Artists of Oregon * Portland Art Museum

The Portland Art Museum has the work of 69 Black artists on view until March 17, 2024.

“Through the narrative flow of the exhibition, visitors will experience work by Black artists across decades and generations. Particular attention is given to the works of Black artists who were producing work during the Black Arts Movement of the late 1960s, ’70s, and early ’80s…”

Some of the 69 artists included in the presentation:

manuel arturo abreu (b. 1991)

damali ayo (b. 1972)

Natalie Ball (b. 1980)

J.S. Bell (1882-1925)

Harrison Branch (b. 1947)

Nikesha Breeze (b. 1979)

Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918)

Richard Brown (b. 1939)

Black Artists of Oregon

Portland Art Museum

Until Mar 17, 2024

1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR

(Image: Isaka Shamsud-Din, “Rock of Ages”, 1976)

 

Abraham Ángel, (1905 – 1924) ~ 30 Paintings at The Dallas Museum of Art

“Abraham Ángel: Between Wonder and Seduction introduces U.S. audiences to this legendary artist with the first major survey of his work in over 35 years. During his brief three-year career, Ángel developed a unique artistic style that successfully captured the rapidly changing society and culture of Mexico in the early 20th century.”

Abraham Ángel: Between Wonder and Seduction

Dallas Museum of Art / DMA ~ 9/10/23 until 1/28/24

(Image: Abraham Ángel, Self-portrait (1923), oil on cardboard)

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Fauvism At The MET!

 

“…Henri Matisse and Andre Derain embarked on a partnership that led to a wholly new, radical artistic language later known as Fauvism. Their daring, energetic experiments with color, form, structure, and perspective changed the course of French painting; it marked an introduction to early modernism…”

“At the Salon d’Automne in 1905, when Matisse and Derain unveiled their controversial canvases, a prominent French journalist labeled them “les Fauves,” or wild beasts.”

 

Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism

Until January 21, 2024

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC

 

 

Henry Taylor at The Whitney, NYC

“For more than thirty years, the Los Angeles–based artist Henry Taylor (b. 1958) has portrayed people from widely different backgrounds—family members, friends, neighbors, celebrities, politicians, and strangers—with a mixture of raw immediacy and tenderness. His improvisational approach to artmaking is hinted at in this exhibition’s title, Henry Taylor: B Side, which refers to the side of a record album that often contains lesser-known, more experimental songs. “

Henry Taylor: B Side

Oct 4, 2023–Jan 28, 2024

Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC

 

 

 

“Vida Americana” At The Whitney

“Vida Americana” At The Whitney

 

The Whitney Museum, NYC, presents: “Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945”.

“Mexico underwent a radical cultural transformation at the end of its Revolution in 1920. A new relationship between art and the public was established, giving rise to art that spoke directly to the people about social justice and national life… It galvanized artists in the United States who were seeking to break free of European aesthetic domination to create publicly significant and accessible native art.”

The exhibition contains about 200 works by 60 Mexican and American artists, including José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945

Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC

(Image: David Alfaro Siqueiros, Echo of a Scream, 1937)

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Women’s Art Museum In D.C. Re Opened!

Women’s Art Museum In D.C. Re Opened!

 

Closed for 2 years, the “National Museum of Women in the Arts“, or NMWA, has reopened.

It is one of many museums in the DC area, but this one is special because it “is the only major museum in the world solely dedicated to recognizing women’s creative contributions.”

Created in 1987,with more “than 4,000 works, NMWA’s wide-ranging collection provides a comprehensive survey of art by women from the 16th century to the present, with new acquisitions added regularly”.

National Museum of Women in the Arts

New York Avenue and 13th Street, NW, DC

(“Cuatro Pescaditos”, Graciela Iturbide – Oaxaca, Mexico, 1986)

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Amoako Boafo at SAM

“Experience the beauty and complexity of Blackness in Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo’s debut solo museum exhibition Soul of Black Folks.”

Love his portraits. Love how he does skin.

“When I’m making paintings,

I want the characters to be strong,

I want them to be free,

I want them to be independent,

I want them to be unapologetic.”

— Amoako Boafo

Amoako Boafo: Soul of Black Folks

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