Sentences with phrase «american cultural objects»

As he articulated in the press preview, this desire for escape follows a long trajectory of Black American cultural objects.

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[7] Many theological students, especially women, African Americans, and Hispanics, regularly and vigorously object that their «theological education» is in important respects inappropriate to the faith communities to which they belong and to the social and cultural worlds in which they expect to live and work in the future.

This test consists of 20 items (with an associated answer key for the teacher) that assess the vocabulary, grammar, and cultural concepts listed below: Vocabulary Themes: History; Countries and cities; Communities Grammar Themes: Prepositions: Preterite tense in regular - ar, - er, and - ir verbs; Direct object pronouns Culture Themes: The Mayas and The Incas; Independence Age; Latin American and US Writing in Spanish: Punctuation and accents An alternate version of the test is also provided to the teacher, in case a student needs to re-take the assessment or for use in large classrooms.

Since moving to Mexico, Glassford has immersed himself in Latin American life, using found materials in his work and amassing a large collection of Mexican cultural objects that inform his art - making.

Overview: Theaster Gates (b. 1973) weaves together personal and cultural narratives, creating objects that speak to a particular time and place, and to the arc of American history.

And while it has been popular of late to display actual handmade African - American quilts, such as the ones exhibited in upscale New York galleries, Huckaby's act of repainting quilts disarms them as fetishized aesthetic objects while folding their weighted cultural meaning into the history of painting.

VMFA also participates with the American Association of Museum Directors (AAMD) Object Registry: AAMD Object Registry which lists new acquisitions of archaeological material and works of ancient art and tracks resolutions of claims for Nazi - era cultural assets.

Although both British and American pop art began during the 1950s, Marcel Duchamp and others in Europe like Francis Picabia and Man Ray predate the movement; in addition there were some earlier American proto - pop origins which utilized «as found» cultural objects.

One of Kings County's preeminent cultural New York attractions, the 560,000 - square - foot Brooklyn Museum made history as the first American art museum to exhibit African objects as artwork.

He participated in the recent Stop Asking: We Exist exhibition of African - American craft art at the Society for Contemporary Crafts in Pittsburgh and curated the popular and groundbreaking exhibition Uncommon Beauty in Common Objects: The Legacy of African American Craft Art that toured the United States in the mid-1990's organized by the National Afro - American Museum & Cultural Center in Wilberforce, OH.

By re-appropriating American culture through found objects, she questions social, political and cultural issues about sex, gender identity and marginalized groups.

Currently on view at American Contemporary, New York is «The Cardboard Lover,» a group exhibition that explores how cultural objects reflect the subjective experiences and objective styles produced by the late capitalist organization of labor.

1987 Sculpture Trends of the 80's, The Queen's Museum, Flushing, NY The Afro - American Artist in the Age of Pluralism, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ Passages: A Survey of California Women Artists, Part II, Fresno Center & Museum, Fresno, CA The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

1989 The Appropriate Object, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, New York, NY; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY The 1960s: A Cultural Awakening, Afro - American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Forty Years of California Assemblage, Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA; Josyln Museum of Art, Omaha, NE Secrets and Shadows, California State University, San Luis Obispo, CA Women's Caucus for Art 10th Annual Exhibition, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA African American Artists 1880 - 1987: Selections from the Evans - Tibbs Collection, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL

Since 1990 Sol» Sax has produced objects, images, and performances that fuse African - American cultural heritages like Hip - Hop, House, Reggae, Soul, Jazz, Blues, and spirituals with traditional African religions like Yoruba, Congo, Mende, Akan, and Fon.

He depicts these notions through the use of found domestic and utilitarian objects and materials to form sculptures, drawings, and prints that generate visual puns and cultural overtones, while also aiming to highlight how these objects portray and mimic language, specifically Spanglish — the rhythmic convergence of two languages spoken in Latin - American homes.

Samella Lewis wrote in her book, African American Art and Artists, «Cultural customs and objects we have regarded as commonplace take on new significance and value in Sonya Clark's artwork.

Traveled to Grazer Kunstverein, Austria and The Studio Museum, New York Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue) 2000 Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900 - 2000, Section 5, 1980 - 2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (catalogue) 1999 Through the Looking Glass, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NY 1995 In a Different Light, (co-curator), University of California, Berkeley Art Museum (catalogue) Into a New Museum - Recent Gifts and Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1994 Body and Soul, (with Cindy Sherman, General Idea and Ronald Jones), Baltimore Museum of Art Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art Don't Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (catalogue) Black Male, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) 1993 Building a Collection: The Department of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston I Love You More Than My Own Death, Venice Biennale 1992 Translation, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw California: North and South, Aspen Art Museum, CO Recent Narrative Sculpture, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI Facing the Finish, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (catalogue) Nayland Blake, Richmond Burton, Peter Cain, Gary Hume, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Effected Desire, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic, Portland Art Museum, OR The Auto Erotic Object, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York 1991 Third Newport Biennial: Mapping Histories, Newport Harbor Art Museum, CA (catalogue) Facing the Finish, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Louder, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago The Interrupted Life: On Death and Dying, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Anni Novanta, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna.

Using the book as a symbol for knowledge, Benes conceals the information inherent to the object's purpose either as cheeky irreverence or as a commentary on American cultural values.

While NMAAHC has been heralded for its object - based storytelling, documenting African American history from slavery to civil rights through the Presidency of Barack Obama, and exploring important cultural moments, it also celebrates visual art.